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RE: Editing .pdfs - to do or not to do is the question
Subject:RE: Editing .pdfs - to do or not to do is the question From:"Bill Swallow" <wswallow -at- nycap -dot- rr -dot- com> To:"'HSC Italian'" <twins398 -at- hotmail -dot- com>, "'TECHWR-L'" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 13 Feb 2004 03:11:51 -0500
It's not a black or white issue. This article should help you with this
issue:
Bill Swallow
wswallow "at" nycap "dot" rr "dot" com
::: -----Original Message-----
::: "editing the .pdf of a document is not an option". The rule
::: I am accustomed
::: to is that any changes to the document are to done in the
::: source file, ONLY,
::: then a new .pdf is generated from the corrected source file.
:::
::: The editing process that is being proposed is this, if a
::: document has
::: changes the editor can make the changes in the .pdf and at
::: the same time the
::: writer can make the changes to the source. Perhaps I'm old
::: school and need
::: to be woken up, if so, PLEASE tell me. This proposed
::: process just seems
::: risky and counterproductive.
