>>>> "Jules" == Jules Richardson
<jules.richardson99 at gmail.com> writes:
Jules> Jim Brain wrote:
> However, for documentation, I still believe PDF
has advantages, if
> one wants to print the documentation out.
Jules> I wonder if it's just suffered the same way HTML has - perhaps
Jules> back in the day it was a good format for quickly laying out
Jules> simple text, but then over the year has been completely
Jules> wrecked by "let's just add this feature" syndrome?
It never was that. PDF has always been a portable, compact way of
encoding a "final form" document to look exactly the way the designer
wanted it to look. Contrast that with editable formats like TeX or MS
Word, or "approximate" formats like HTML.
In other words, PDF is like PS except that it isn't supposed to be
machine dependent (which PS tends to be). And it basically does just
that, which is why PDF is a common format for producing camera-ready
material for print shops.
paul