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Anonymous
Alright, /po/. Sorry if its a dumb question, but it's been bothering me for a while.

I don't see the point of PDF documents sometimes. I can understand if you want to post a lot of pages in a neat package, but I don't know why people bother with a single page of templates. Much less why you'd do 16 pages like the model pictured.

So to make a long question short, what's the point of using a PDF for a single page? Why not use some other image format?
>> Anonymous
Some people want extra protections on their files which PDF provides, more options, convenient tolls that are in PDF I suppose.

uhh I dont know...

But as for the security that isnt gonna stop anyone dropping PDF into photoshop and exporting it into any and every other format or screenshoting if its pass-restricted from copying, opening in another program,print.
>> Anonymous
There is no reason for traditional pixel images to be in a PDF, single or multiple page.
Some vectator said that PDF is the quality way to distribute vector models, and ever since rasterfarians put raster images in PDF, nod to themselves and declare "i ar good modleler".
>> Anonymous
If you release a model that was designed for A4 paper, US people that use letter size sometimes are unaware of this, print without looking and sometimes the printer settings make it so that it comes out distorted (different X and Y scale).
With pdf, Adobe Reader handles this automatically if I'm correct, so scaling the page automatically. That might be a reason?
>> Anonymous
>>54887
That's the reason I use PDF for single page models – scaling is my singular reason.
>> PDF Master
Scaling!
>> Anonymous
You can scale to fit 1 pg print with paint as well...
>> Of all the arguments on this board Anonymous
This has to be the stupidest!

>> You can scale to fit 1 pg print with paint as well...

Not always, and not as easily as in Adobe. It's built in to adobe, most internet browsers automatically will load adobe and allow a person to view/print.

Not everyone has a "paint" program. I don't on this machine, and can't figure out why, but it has gotten me at times when I want to edit an image. I just don't have one on this machine.

So, why gripe about something _GOOD_ like people taking the time to put their work into PDF which makes it easier to share, easier to print, easier to work with in general for the AVERAGE person.

Of course, if you are trying to modify the image, it takes an extra step in your paint program to pull the image out to modify. But the vast majority of people just view/print.

Also, on the boards, PDF distinguishs the file you usually want, from all the non-template files that are also jpg, png, and gif and such.
>> Anonymous
>>54881
Source on picture?
>> Anonymous
Bump for OP pic geek dice roller template :)
>> Anonymous
This sauce is delicious!

http://papermakeit.com/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=17&Itemid=28
>> Anonymous
>>54967

Woot! Thanks for the major geekitude, I'm totally making that!
>> Jen
Password protection on PDF files is nice, but it can also be noted that some people use PDF for single page files but don't use password protection. The main reason, auto scaling, has already been mentioned. I've also released single page PDF files before because I was using Photoshop and felt that it was one of the easiest ways to allow others to modify the image as they saw fit.

I think the easiest way of getting past password protected PDF files is sending them to print, and then using Print to PDF in order to get a PDF I can use in Photoshop. If I'm not on a Mac, then I find that PDF995 works rather nicely as a free little app.
>> Anonymous
>>54932
Of course there's hundreds of programs that can scale regular jpg/png/bmp images, but often, people don't look closely, and when US people try to print A4 paper size templates to US letter size paper (or the other way around) sometimes the program scales the image different in the X-axis than in the Y-axis if people leave "scale proportionally" unchecked. And that happens a lot (people are stupid, let's face it...) With PDF, you don't have to worry about that, the proportions are reserved automatically.
I mean, many people that use Windows XP are set up so that Windows Viewer opens their image files automatically. And with that program, there isn't even a "scale proportionally before printing option"... Just "rotate and cut off the top or sides" or "rotate and scale DISporportionally" A very useful program indeed to have as your standard image viewer..........
>> Anonymous
>>55000
GET
>> Anonymous
It's logical to use it as a standard, although not necessary for single-page origami, it ensures that multi-page prints will be correctly scaled, so that there are no mess ups with the size of the pieces of the model. Also, for the record, you can't force someone to print on a particular size media, therefore any physical size scaling argument is void unless the printout implies the intended size.
>> Jen
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>>55058

HA HA HA! I didn't even notice that. Thanks for pointing it out. I has a get. Here's an animated gif off of yahoo mail to celebrate.