Adobe originally intended PDF to be a colour "fax" format for sending documents to others. It was also intended to be a universal printable format so that recipients did not need the sender's software (OgreOffice, PubCrawler, or whatever) to print the output of the sender's program.
Regards, Hedley On 1 January 2015 at 02:20, Oogie McGuire <oog...@desertweyr.com> wrote: > In my case PDFs are one of the best most portable file formats. I use them > extensively for anything I scan and save. I never expect anyone to edit > PDFs I create but I often get editable ones as forms that I fill out and > save and send back. Best is that even old versions of the files can be read > by new versions of the SW. It's a perfect archiving format. > > As for encryption, that also works well. > > I've never seen the excess blank pages or wide margins unless the person > set it up that way. > > As others have mentioned, PDF is a print format and not really meant to be > editable in the same sense an ODT file is. > . > On Dec 30, 2014, at 8:50 AM, anne-ology <lagin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > rom a PDF file, there's a lot of blank pages, gobbledegook, > > extraneous lines criss-crossing, as well as extremely wide margins - all > of > > which not only wastes paper but makes for a quite messy printed page(s). > > > > So other than those who think they're ecrypting the data why does > > anyone use a program which makes such a mess > > Eugenie (Oogie) McGuire > Desert Weyr, LLC - Black Welsh Mountain Sheep http://www.desertweyr.com/ > LambTracker - Open Source SW for Shepherds http://www.lambtracker.com > Paonia, CO USA > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- 1/17 Glyndon Road, Camberwell VIC 3124, Australia hedley.fin...@gmail.com Telephone 03 9836 4635 Mobile 0412 461 558 LinuxCounter.net registered computer 576484 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
