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Originally Posted by charleski
I think it's important to understand the distinction between source and delivery formats. While PDF is rubbish for anyone who needs to edit or modify the document, it's great for delivery since it's so easy to install a reader for it on virtually any platform. PDF's intractability to modification is a distinct advantage for a delivery vehicle - there's no chance of someone accidentally changing an equation and then passing the paper on to someone else.
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But if you are going to put everything together in a proceeding you do not want to have them as PDF. You want to have the papers as LaTeX-file using the same style file. You can put together PDF but you have to do tricks to fix the page number and you will probably not get a consistent look.