On 5/22/15 12:26 PM, Neil wrote:
On 5/22/2015 1:56 PM, Ken Springer wrote:
On 5/22/15 11:05 AM, Stormin' Norman wrote:
On Fri, 22 May 2015 18:19:59 +0200, Jonas Klein

wrote:

Am 22.05.2015 um 15:58 schrieb Ken Springer:
The world started slowly moving that way when Adobe created
and released the PDF file format. Now you have the open
file formats (odt, ods, etc.). Who cares what program the
originator of a file used? When you get a PDF file do you
really care if Adobe Acrobat created the file? Or Word? Or
Word Perfect? AutoCAD? MicroCAD? No. You just want to be
able to read it.

Wrong! I am a translator and I usually want to overwrite PDF
files in order to give my customers a translated file with
the same formats. Always a pain in the ass if all I get is
an image PDF.


That is where Acrobat portfolios come in handy, but the vast majority
of people are not familiar with them.

I've never heard of it. LOL Which means I've never used it. Then,
I'd never heard of Curl either, until a need came up and that was the
cat's meow for a solution.

In general, would portfolios be useful to the average user, or even
small to medium sized businesses? Would the cost be acceptable in
general to that group of users?

The question is, "useful for what?" IMO, editing PDFs is attacking the
problem from the wrong end. As one who has used the PDF format since it
was introduced, and even written programs to create PDFs, one thing I've
seen is that there are a lot of PDFs created by non-Adobe apps that do
not follow the spec. A lot of time can be wasted editing them, because
they just get trashed.

The best approach is to edit the original file and create a new PDF,
since even those apps that create marginal PDFs may be OK for the
intended use.

I have never understood the idea of editing a PDF file. If you're going
to do that, why not just send the original around for editing?

So I think we agree, use the PDF files for feedback, then edit the original.


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