5 Dec
2013
5 Dec
'13
09:21
On 2013-12-05 10:12, C wrote:
An side on the PDF thing... I was at a conference in November, and one of the presenters kind of nailed it, describing PDFs as the fax machine of the Internet, and just as doomed to eventual obscurity as... fa machines. I thought it was a pretty interesting analogy.
You tell that to the officialdom. I was told yesterday that I have to sign some papers. I can use fax, not email. Not valid. Fax, or go in person to the office (preferred, actually). Fax machines are still used a lot. Ditto for PDF, many official forms for government things that have been "computerized" use PDF forms of one kind or another. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 12.3 x86_64 "Dartmouth" at Telcontar)