PDFs

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#1

what ???

       In actually printing the data -
         (in my experience) -
        from 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 - and as for encrypting the
data; well, I've been able to open any of these PDFs without waiting for
whatever code - after receiving whatever codes, the outcome is never any
better.

#2

      what ???

      In actually printing the data -
        (in my experience) -
       from 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 - and as for encrypting the
data; well, I've been able to open any of these PDFs without waiting for
whatever code - after receiving whatever codes, the outcome is never any
better.

I wonder what is going on here. I don't experience _any_ of this. of course, if the composer of the pdf set the margins wide (or narrow) that will show up in the pdf (as it's supposed to).

how do you open them for reading?

for my part I couldn't work at all well without pdfs, pretty much indispensable.

F.

#3

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.
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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

#4

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