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Old 05-20-2009, 12:30 PM   #173
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Originally Posted by thibaulthalpern View Post
If that is the premise you begin with, then you might as well say computers are made for computers so bye-bye human beings. If computers were not made to ultimately to aid human beings but rather to aid in digital forms then I think we're entering cuckoo land.
The larger point I was making is that the great advantage of digital information is that it can be post-processed far more easily than printed information. This post processing is done by computers. Computers dont post-process PDF well. The ability to post process - recombine, manipulate, search, display in different contexts, etc. is going to be far more important the the ability to control the exact placement of text.
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