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Re:What is the PDF format good for? Nothing (2006) by megaman22 on Thursday July 19, 2018 @09:05AM (#17565831)
It's scary how differently PDFs can be output depending on the exporter. I have some Word docs for user and installation guides that can be 100% larger depending on whether the content writer saves it as PDF, exports it as PDF, or prints the document to a PDF.
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Re:What is the PDF format good for? Nothing (2006) by cptskippy on Thursday July 19, 2018 @09:32AM (#17566071)
Not really. Each of those PDFs has a different intent and thus a different amount of metadata embedded it in.
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Re:What is the PDF format good for? Nothing (2006) by megaman22 on Thursday July 19, 2018 @10:47AM (#17566773)
For the purposes of what we're doing with them, we don't care about any of that, however. The real answer would be to automate the process, so people don't have to think and have the opportunity to do it wrongly, it just happens, but it's hasn't been high enough priority to bother with getting right.
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