Software review by Ralph Grabowski PDF became the de facto exchange medium for drawings and documents because it is accurate (Adobe made sure of that when they first developed Acrobat), and because it is read-only: recipients can't modify the document. Even in the CAD industry PDF has taken over from other formats meant to be lightweight (don't contain all the baggage a drawing file normally carries) and meant to be read-only (can't be edited), such as Autodesk's DWF. But people want what they can't have, and so third-party developers figured out how to reverse engineer the contents of PDF files.... Read more →
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