<quote who="Phil Scarratt"> > Stuart Guthrie wrote: > http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue72/bright.html > > "PDF documents provide a great way to pass around documents on the > Internet. They have many uses, such as sending quotes and invoices to > business clients. Two of the main reasons the PDF format is so popular > is that it preserves all of the document's formatting exactly and it is > easily viewable on almost all platforms. For many computer users stuck
yes, 'formating EXACTLY', in view what I heard today, perhaps a popular misconception, I also believed that, but earlier today, I was discussing things in general with a graphic designer, who told me all the 'problems' technology brought to her workplace, now that they do 'computer to plate' printing. I said, surely you can run PDFs to the client to aprove, then run with that ? she told me, No, PDFs do NOT truly represent the final product from the printer, things like thickness of typefaces and thickness of lines, etc, vary quite greatly, and, they can't afford the risk of $100,000 print job might get rejected she years for the days when the plates were photographed, and, you got what you saw, apparently Acrobat doesn't deliver professional quality -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
