Posted by: Jonathan Bartlett
on June 18, 2004 01:18 PM
Actually, I've found that PDFs are great for the print world. They are also great for bridging the gap between print and online. You often don't have the money/time to move all of your documents to HTML, so PDF is a nice in-between step.
For print work, PDF is wonderful because it keeps your document exactly how it will be printed on the printer. They are also universally accepted, and have tons of tools that print shops can use with them. They are based on the PostScript model, so they are easy to convert back and forth from PostScript as well.
There are PS/PDF tools for creating signatures from input files (signatures are how pages are printed for book binding - quite a bit different than how they are arranged after generating them from your files), doing color separations, watermarking, and all sorts of things. It's actually a pretty complete and great system for print.
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Re:PDF files vs text
Posted by: Jonathan Bartlett on June 18, 2004 01:18 PMFor print work, PDF is wonderful because it keeps your document exactly how it will be printed on the printer. They are also universally accepted, and have tons of tools that print shops can use with them. They are based on the PostScript model, so they are easy to convert back and forth from PostScript as well.
There are PS/PDF tools for creating signatures from input files (signatures are how pages are printed for book binding - quite a bit different than how they are arranged after generating them from your files), doing color separations, watermarking, and all sorts of things. It's actually a pretty complete and great system for print.
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