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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Torg Smith" data-source="post: 6344366" data-attributes="member: 61799">The main advantage to the open standard PDF is that you are almost guaranteed to have access to a PDF Reader for a long time to come. As I probably only have about 20 years left, they will most likely be usable for the remainder of my life. The other formats are not so sure. As the publishers are designing these books for print, the layout is done in book format. The other formats are more targeted at small devices. To make the books look good on them would require all new layout and the art and maps would not work well.You really don't want authentication server requirements on your documents. Trust me, I have laughed at a lot of people who whined when authentication servers were shut down for games. It was like they thought the company should not be allowed to do that and that they were getting ripped off. The fact that they accepted the authentication server to begin with was their own fault.</blockquote>