Tad over at Paper Jammed has written a really great piece called Keeping Your Documents Readable For Years To Come.
In it, he doesn’t just state that PDF is the best choice for document archiving, but he goes through the history and the reasons for it.
What if you had to show someone this document five years down the road? Do you want to have to chase down a possibly obsolete version of a very expensive application that might not even run on your operating system?
Any articles that references working on VAX and VMS gets a gold star from me.
It’s hard to imagine, but do you keep your long term documents in another format than PDF?
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