[IxDA Discuss] What to do when linking to documents?

[Loren Baxter]

@Juan:
I agree with many of your points on the relationship between paper
and digital documents.  However I think that "PDFs... belong to the
past" is a unnecessary generalization.  While the filesize and
extension of documents isn't ideally as user friendly as the real
world, it's a problem that ALL digital documents suffer from - even
html.

PDF is a step ahead of all other programs in terms of allowing a
publisher to create a document with high levels of control over
layout.  A publisher can also be confident that users will have
access to a decent .pdf reader, which can't be said of .doc.  Html
has power and interactivity, but is not user friendly from the
publisher side.

My point is that, currently, PDF is the closest digital thing to a
real world piece of paper.


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