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To: ReignOfError

Your points about printing to pdf are well taken. I use that quite a bit on Linux. I also print to postscript a lot, because I have tools that will let me do a lot of things to it later like reorder the pages for booklets and such. I really like the portability of PDF files, the only drawback being that unless you have Acrobat, you can’t edit them.


57 posted on 05/02/2008 6:35:30 AM PDT by zeugma (Mark Steyn For Global Dictator!)
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To: zeugma
I really like the portability of PDF files, the only drawback being that unless you have Acrobat, you can’t edit them.

Bug, or feature? PDFs let you send along filed in a read-only format, and if you have the original source document, you can always make revisions. But you do raise the valid point that that Apple print driver only includes in a PDF what you can print -- you cannot, for example, add hyperlinks. There's still a market for the full Acrobat package.

58 posted on 05/02/2008 6:48:55 AM PDT by ReignOfError
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To: zeugma
I really like the portability of PDF files, the only drawback being that unless you have Acrobat, you can’t edit them.

If you have a Mac you can rotate, delete and reshuffle pages from the built-in viewer, but there are still things you need Acrobat for.

73 posted on 05/02/2008 11:41:16 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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