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FW: Editing .pdfs - to do or not to do is the question
Subject:FW: Editing .pdfs - to do or not to do is the question From:Maritza van den Heuvel <MaritzaV -at- stt-global -dot- com> To:TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 12 Feb 2004 16:12:38 +0200
Maritza: I agree - editing a PDF is a cumbersome and tedious process. And if
you're working in Word and using the Distiller, it's easy to automate the
production of new PDF's with a simple macro.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Johan Hiemstra [mailto:webmaster -at- techexams -dot- net]
Sent: 12 February 2004 04:06
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: Editing .pdfs - to do or not to do is the question
I would say: don't. Keeping two version of the same doc in different format,
edited by different people, itself is not a sound idea. Apart from the fact
that editing a PDF is usually not very easy without messing up the doc. I
provide free e-books in PDF format, and was hoping that editing PDFs would
have become easier in Acrobat 6.0 Pro... it didn't. Perhaps I lack the
skills to work with Acrobat properly, but for me it is ten times quicker to
edit the word doc and generate a new PDF than to edit the PDF 'and' the
source doc.
