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Originally Posted by Moejoe
I stand corrected. And I just downloaded your 'Art of War' PDF and it does look fantastic. But let me ask you this, why, if it just a matter of correct formatting, do we get so many badly put together PDF's (especially from Publishing houses)? Are they (as I think someone else suggested) just "Printing to PDF" rather than taking the time to do it correctly, or is there some other reason I'm not aware of?
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Printing to PDF is clean compared to what publishing houses do. They often edit a PDF version and that causes a fractured database with words all over the file but moved to the correct place by PDF positioning technology. This all over the file placement of words and images is what causes conversion nightmares and failures. Publishers should have a clean source (with source control) that is not PDF and then convert to PDF using a good production tool such as PDF distiller.
Dale