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[Patrick Neeman]

That's like saying we should ban PowerPoint because a lot of executives
produce bad presentations.

If you have ever worked in the print industry (and some of us have), you
can't underestimate the power of PDFs. Just because how some people use it
is incorrect doesn't mean it's a bad tool (the same could be said about
Flash). PDF is the ultimate way of shipping around documents without worries
abuot whether the format is going to be damaged (HTML) or the document is
going to be altered (Word). Just because some see it fit to shakedown these
large companies until they pay them money...well...

P@

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From: sigia-l-admin at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-admin at asis.org] On Behalf Of
Christopher Tubb
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 9:59 AM
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Let's thank Jakob for getting his knife out on Adobe's sacred cow - 
intranet's are drowning in PDF and things are getting worse. People on 
the factory floor of content creation love PDF because they need to do 
virtually no work to publish it, and they don't think IA and don't 
worry about searching and indexing content soup.

OK - can we guess ahead of N/N associates next paper for download (PDF 
2.5MB) on what they suggest might be the best ways around it?

Cheers

Chris

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