[KLUG Members] pdf v document attachments

[Eric Beversluis]

On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 17:06 -1000, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> The key here is that they are nor REALLY accomplishing this.  Just near 
> enough that most of the time they don't notice.
> 
YES.
> >resumes and CVs, etc.  Even journals want articles submitted in Word
> 
> Really!  Must again be an academic thing,  because it certainly is NOT true 
> of any publication I've communicated with.
> 
> >format. (Probably because they need to be edited.)
> 
> I doubt it.  Most publications will strip all your formatting and redo it 
> to match there style and standard.
> 
My thought was that if you send them the pdf they can't do this--they
want the document in editable form.
> >1.  Why would it be considered better to send these as pdfs rather than
> >as documents? 
> 
> Security.  Opening an M$-Office document from an unknown computer is a 
> virus enabling practice.
> 
> >(One reason is that, by design, pdf's are "portable
> >documents" and should create fewer problems opening them if one has a
> >different word processor
> 
> You don't even need a word processor.  Just a PDF viewer.

Right--the problem would arise if one was trying, say, to open a WP
document in a Word wordprocessor that didn't have the right
filter--which happened to my wife the other day. In fact, OO Writer
won't open Word Perfect docs (as of my version, anyway).

EB
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