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Everything I've looked into makes me believe K-Thom is charitably overestimating the rationality and intelligence of publishers and their IT minions. Apparently they believe a badly structured PDF file is what they need for a permanent electronic record of the document.
Those original author .doc, .rtf, etc. files they demand are disposable, rather than being the original-of-record. This is despite the fact that the author's files are probably tolerably structured, at least to the point that someone in the future can see what is needed to make a new version. Somewhen, the frustrated and enraged shades of future archivists and historians are clamoring for time machine permits to go back into the past with Uzis to decimate the BPH's IT department.
Regards,
Jack Tingle
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