Originally posted by Marcel Birgelen
As for what the "average office user" needs (or wants), I think many of them are happy just using any sort of default PDF generation capability built into the office productivity applications they're using.
There is plenty of both good and bad with the PDF format reaching a certain level of ubiquity. Many people simply don't understand basic fundamentals of the types of objects they'll put into a PDF container. One of the common use cases we see is clients attempting to give us acceptable quality artwork. For most purposes we want clean, vector-based artwork that can go directly to a vinyl cutter, routing table or be scaled up/down to any size without loss of image quality. PDF is one of several file formats that can contain vector-based objects. The clients often just want to give us the first stupid JPEG image they found on a hard drive somewhere, or copied from a web page. So what do they do? Save the pixel-based JPEG image inside of a PDF wrapper and expect the PDF format to magically convert their low-quality raster graphic into a high quality vector-based one. That situation is not the fault of Adobe or the PDF format.
Originally posted by Marcel Birgelen
My problem is, if you want to be useful for a beta program, you really need to invest quite a lot of time into it, otherwise you're only committing to a bunch of potential problems for maybe that one feature you were really looking for. If you're into the cutting edge of a particular piece of software then I can understand your commitment, but I guess I used to be much more excited about "new developments" 20 years ago than I'm now, as I just can't find the energy anymore for any of this.
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