Question about PDF manipulation

[Randy McLaughlin]

From: "Eric Smith" <eric at brouhaha.com>
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 1:04 AM


> der Mouse wrote:
>> I'm entirely with you.  But that said, I'd rather have a PDF than
>> nothing at all, and it seems many of the people scanning stuff are
>> unwilling to do anything else. :-þ
>
> If you put up TIFF files, you get innundated with complaints that "your
> TIFF files are broken", because they are trying to use some random
> losing TIFF viewer that only supports DCT compression or something.
>
> Speaking from experience.
>
> Eric

>From experience I have found that there is no format for any type of data 
that is acceptable to everyone.

Today I was at a clients office and one of the managers installed QuickTime 
on his computer to play a video clip.  He then tried to display a scanned 
invoice (tiff file), it gave him the big Q symbol and displayed a blank 
screen.  I changed the QuickTime plugin to ignore tiff files and it started 
working again.

The point is there are hundreds of tiff viewers that are incompatible on the 
most basic level but very few PDF incompatibilities (yes I know that every 
once in a while there is a problem but nowhere as many as with tiff 
viewers).

I went to a fair amount of effort to find a tiff viewer that works well with 
their documents (alternatiff) and hate it that every time I turn around 
someone is loading something incompatible. BTW that's both a Windoze rant as 
well as a rant on everyone else that believes they know what is best for a 
system I have configured the way I like it such as Apple.


Randy
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