I can’t help it; I have to point to Geoffrey Pullam’s tale of electronic submission woes and the Cambridge University Press. In general, it’s an entertainingly written introduction to the extraordinary silliness of the way word-processing totally fails to connect to publishing, but then there’s this:
“Minimum trust in document transfer means only letting people have things in a page description language like PostScript, or better, PDF. It means they can't edit the file the receive, they can only print it, and if it prints at all it prints exactly the way you want it to.”AhahahahahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahahooooooooooooohahahahaha. Oh, my. That’s funny.
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-Vardibidian.
Now, V, we both know that the only serious problems with PDF files are if they contain text or graphics. As long as your PDF file is only supposed to contain document info (such as title, author, and creation date), a page size, and a number of pages, it’s remarkably reliable. Except for the page size.