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Editing .pdfs - to do or not to do is the question
Subject:Editing .pdfs - to do or not to do is the question From:"HSC Italian" <twins398 -at- hotmail -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com Date:Wed, 11 Feb 2004 21:28:37 -0600
Our team is under new management and we have a new editor. We are in the
process of getting an editing process into place. I've been a writer for
well over a decade and in my expience the rule has always been this:
"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.
