How Important Is Acrobat 5?--McIlroy

Ironically PDF's huge success as an electronic document format is clearly related to its familiarity and comfort for a generation raised on print documents. One analyst called PDF the perfect "tweener format"—a format appealing to publishers in between the all-paper generation and the upcoming all (or mostly all) electronic generation. PDF files can offer most of the attributes of paper documents—page structure, elaborate graphics and meticulous design—along with a bunch of bonus features that could only work electronically.