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Subject:Re: Editorial Against PDFs From:Tracy Boyington <tracy_boyington -at- OKVOTECH -dot- ORG> Date:Fri, 6 Mar 1998 09:04:28 -0600
Dianna Massey wrote:
>
> I have argued against using PDF and for using PDF, and believe it or not,
> the arguments are not contradictory.
I don't find this hard to believe at all. Sometimes PDF is the
appropriate format and sometimes it is not. Not even Adobe uses PDF
exclusively;-) and to say that PDF is the answer to everything is just
as silly as saying it is the answer to nothing.