On 9/28/05, Lee Passey <lee@novomail.net> wrote:
And this is the problem with PDF. Having a PDF file does not necessarily mean you will get a nice looking printout, it only means you will get a printout that looks like what the document author wanted you to have.
It gives me a better printout than anything else I've seen can. No one here was talking about PDFs as a master format, so that's moot. And I don't think that "allow[ing] the end user to have the maximum amount of input as to the which rendering decisions are made" is a good idea. Options take time to code, most people don't care about widows and orphans, and a page full of mysterious options (and I suspect widows and orphans fall into that classification for many users) is a way to drive away many users.