Re: Survey: how do you use PDFs

[Tom Murrell <trmurrell -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

Regarding PDFs. I don't like 'em. They're the most difficult things online to
read online. Invariably they arrive fuzzy and poorly sized for the screen. (You
can't size things for every screen with PDF, I don't believe.) They're hard to
navigate, and everything everybody else says about them is true, too. I don't
like 'em. Don't like 'em at all.

That said, if I have to have the information and the only way to get it is a
PDF, I'll print it out. They usually exist because the developing organization
finds shipping PDFs cheaper than shipping the printed counterpart. They shove
the printing cost onto their audiences. In fact, now that I think about it,
everything about a PDF document seems to be for the convenience of the
developer/developing organization not the convenience of the user.

But of course, that's just MY humble opinion.

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Tom Murrell
Lead Technical Writer
Alliance Data Systems
Columbus, Ohio
mailto:trmurrell -at- yahoo -dot- com
Personal Web Page - http://home.columbus.rr.com/murrell/

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