Converting pdfs

[rikona]

Hello Paul,

Friday, October 26, 2012, 1:33:44 AM, Paul wrote:

> PDF is the best structured container format available right now, and
> has been for the last 10-15 years; even if the archiving and print
> industries were initially slow to adopt it.

>> With Adobe dropping some linux support, is this a significant
>> risk?

> PDF is that format you want. It's a text-based format that you can
> open in Emacs if you need to; which you can send to any PostScript3
> printer if you need to; and which you can render natively using
> several options including Mac OSX' Quatz2D (display PDF), or
> libpoppler on Ubuntu, or Mupdf, or several other choices.

OK - thanks to all of you for the info. I was perhaps more worried
than I should have been. I'll stick with it for now...

> Don't change anything, except your PDF reader software,

I only use adobe for docs that seem to have 'fussy' stuff in it that
gives problems to the others - too many security scares for me...

-- 

 rikona