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DDHarriman · 02-20-2011, 06:44 PM

Hello

At least 4 reasons:

1 - Its the (almost) 100% academic market format;

2 - Its the (almost) 100% business market format;

3 - it’s going to be the archiving format for normal 2D (at least) documents - PDF/A ISO standard 19005-1 (more info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A);

4 - it’s very easy to create - throw a bunch of images to a pdf file and almost every pdf reader will let you see it as an identity.

Note: PDF is not going to be away, expect the contrary.

Best regards,

02-20-2011, 06:44 PM	#16
DDHarriman Guru Posts: 860 Karma: 4380 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Almada, Portugal Device: Cybook Gen3, Sony PRS 505, Kindle DXG and Samsung Galaxy Note	Hello At least 4 reasons: 1 - Its the (almost) 100% academic market format; 2 - Its the (almost) 100% business market format; 3 - it’s going to be the archiving format for normal 2D (at least) documents - PDF/A ISO standard 19005-1 (more info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A); 4 - it’s very easy to create - throw a bunch of images to a pdf file and almost every pdf reader will let you see it as an identity. Note: PDF is not going to be away, expect the contrary. Best regards,