OT PDF's

[Michael Crawford]

Just to add my two cents.


I like PDF's. I really do. Unfortunately PDF's are just like any 
other digital document some of them are good and some of them are 
bad. I really think that it depends entirely on how the PDF is made. 
Just as Word makes a bad job of document creation (cf page layout 
programs like Indesign) Word makes a bad job of PDF's. Making "good" 
PDF's actually takes a little bit of effort and you need to know what 
you are doing. Unfortunately many people never get the hang of this 
including some who should know better. For example I downloaded a PDF 
from Adobe's site the other day that was around 450 K for a two page, 
text only document! Adobe should be doing better than that.

Michael