Screw Drivers and PDF Files

[der Mouse]

>>> If you don't like PDF's I recommend that you start a monastery to
>>> copy by hand any documents you want archived.
>> That's a rather peculiar suggestion.  Now you have me curious - why
>> would you think that I'd consider hand copying the best of the
>> available non-PDF alternatives?
> If you want to share via the internet a document where the value is
> in the information it contains and no longer have anything but
> printed sheets you can either retype the documents or scan them.

There is a third alternative, that being to copy the paper documents
directly onto paper, as a traditional photocopier does, and distribute
the copies.

> Obviously people would normally want to use current technology in
> this case and scan them.

Agreed.

> Once you have scanned documents the question is how to keep them
> packaged.

Well, first there's the question of *whether* to keep them packaged,
but I'll grant you this one.  (There are some uses for scans of
isolated pages or other small fractions of the whole document, but
they're limited.)

> Obviously using the only currently recognized format makes sense.

And here we are at the crux of the matter: it appears you inhabit an
alternative universe in which all the other methods of keeping page
scans packaged have been forgotten.  (What other methods?  To name just
three, (1) put the files in the same directory; (2) a zip file; (3) a
tar file, optionally compressed.)

Thank you.  That cleared up my puzzlement effectively.

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