Am 22.05.2015 um 20:26 schrieb Neil:
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.

Sure, but how do you edit the original file? Easy, if it is
in Word or LibreOffice and my customer sends me the DOC,
DOCX or ODT file. But I'm not going to buy AutoCAD or
InDesign for a file "once in a while" if I need at least ten
jobs to get my money back.