[LINK] Government gives thumbs down to PDF format

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Fernando Cassia wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Birch, Jim <Jim.Birch at dhhs.tas.gov.au> wrote:
>> Not even with print really. Â A PDF should be optimized for what is called the "mechanical specifications" of the target printing device
> 
> I disagree Jim. PDFs aren´t just created for printing on a given
> "target device". PDFs are created so documents can be read while
> preserving the original format regardless of the device and operating
> system used to read it.
> 
> In fact, PDFs are rarely printed nowadays. They´re rather read and
<snip>
> 
> A well-created PDF shouldn´t need to be created in 5 different
> versions for different screen sizes or "output printers". A correctly
> created PDF looks just fine on a Desktop and on a smartphone. The
> software takes care of reflowing the text and zooming out images to
> fit the screen size (which can then be zoomed in or panned by the
> document reader using the functions of the PDF reader software).
> 
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Not to mention Hyperlinks - pretty soon PDF will be exactly
like HTML and PDF readers as fully functional as Browsers.

Marghanita
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