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j8ear · 10-08-2003, 05:22 PM

My thoughts on .PDFs.

1. They are a format developed by the industry standard bearer for all imaging, Adobe.

2. Images created in pdf are generally not 'modifiable'. For example. A new DSL contract was emailed to me as a microsoft word document. I edited all of the provisions, to ensure that I had the upper hand in every transaction, would always be on the premium highest speed plan, would not endure any fee increases, could cancel at will and needed to approve any cancellations attempted by the provider. Then I printed it and faxed it back to them. Three weeks later I had a $39 per month t-1 class dsl over my home phone line, and no one asked me a thing about that contract. It was brilliant, until the DSL provider went belly up (verio), and then it became just an interesting story.

I learned from this one very important lesson. I will never email anyone anything other then a PDF. Unless a better standard comes along to make it very difficult or almost impossible to actually change text, grammer, or other significant provisions of a document, I will publish PDF's all day long.

-bear

10-08-2003, 05:22 PM	#19 (permalink)
j8ear Gentlemen Farmer Location: Middle of nowhere, Jersey	My thoughts on .PDFs. 1. They are a format developed by the industry standard bearer for all imaging, Adobe. 2. Images created in pdf are generally not 'modifiable'. For example. A new DSL contract was emailed to me as a microsoft word document. I edited all of the provisions, to ensure that I had the upper hand in every transaction, would always be on the premium highest speed plan, would not endure any fee increases, could cancel at will and needed to approve any cancellations attempted by the provider. Then I printed it and faxed it back to them. Three weeks later I had a $39 per month t-1 class dsl over my home phone line, and no one asked me a thing about that contract. It was brilliant, until the DSL provider went belly up (verio), and then it became just an interesting story. I learned from this one very important lesson. I will never email anyone anything other then a PDF. Unless a better standard comes along to make it very difficult or almost impossible to actually change text, grammer, or other significant provisions of a document, I will publish PDF's all day long. -bear __________________ It's alot easier to ask for forgiveness then it is to ask for permission. Last edited by j8ear; 10-08-2003 at 05:25 PM..