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PDFs Don't Have to Be an Internet Blight.(Protable Document Formats)(Brief Article)
The free Adobe Reader is everywhere! PDFs are easy to make! Everyone's doing it! Because of that, PDFs are getting a bad rep in certain tech circles.
The argument goes something like this: Writing in to a Ziff Davis Media sister site, Microsoft Watch, a reader proclaimed PDFs a "plague on the Internet."
His main beef? Documents in which there's no structure or links, so when a PDF represents one part of a set of documents--it's a chapter in a book, a part of a technical manual, one of 10 brochures--it often has no context or trail of breadcrumbs for the reader to follow. People who find the document via Google and download it get only a slice when they need the whole pie.
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"I can't get to any associated information on the server hosting the PDF!" this reader said. "PDF is … ...