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skb · 01-15-2019, 05:23 PM

Being a people pleaser, I agree with both Harry and OtinG.

I also wrote manuals (pre-internet) and PDFs were great. I still remember how excited people were when we could DTP them ourselves and then have the PDF printed. Good times. No more printer's proofs back & forth. Oh, frabjous day(s)!

But where they're also still good though is for writing specifications and procedures for distribution that can't be altered (easily). There were even some documents that we produced that couldn't be printed (or cut & pasted from). Using the Adobe tools, you can limit all sorts of things that the end user can do, and while this sounds a bit...OTT, it was really vital in our industry (because with Word docs etc unscrupulous people would change the documents and then there'd be even more lawyers time/money when things went wrong).

01-15-2019, 05:23 PM	#9
skb Evangelist Posts: 401 Karma: 1597305 Join Date: Mar 2010 Device: Ipod G4, MacOS 10.12, Calibre, Pocketbook Touch HD 3	Being a people pleaser, I agree with both Harry and OtinG. I also wrote manuals (pre-internet) and PDFs were great. I still remember how excited people were when we could DTP them ourselves and then have the PDF printed. Good times. No more printer's proofs back & forth. Oh, frabjous day(s)! But where they're also still good though is for writing specifications and procedures for distribution that can't be altered (easily). There were even some documents that we produced that couldn't be printed (or cut & pasted from). Using the Adobe tools, you can limit all sorts of things that the end user can do, and while this sounds a bit...OTT, it was really vital in our industry (because with Word docs etc unscrupulous people would change the documents and then there'd be even more lawyers time/money when things went wrong).