On Dec 6, 2012 7:41 AM, "tom" <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>
> On 05/12/12 16:59, Simon Avery wrote:
>>
>> On 5 December 2012 10:21, paul sutton <zleap@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>>>
>>> a) act as proof of ID
>>> b) that you have consented to checks being carried
out
>>> Its not the clubs fault, its the people further
up.
>>
>> This is very common.
>>
>> I once recently encountered a firm where this was the
practice. Once
>> it was signed and waved in front of the MD, the
accounts people then
>> scanned it back in for archive, shredding the dead tree
version.
>>
>> Quite a few people are now scanning and PDFing paper
docs, it's
>> something I've been looking at for work too.
>>
> But why PDF them - that’s merely an pointless wrapper on
around an image or images. It makes it harder to use - the
image(s) can simply be embedded in a web page while the PDF
requires a bug ridden reader and individual pages cant be
individually referenced.
>
> Tom te tom te tom
To which bug ridden reader are you referring? Evince? XPDF? Are
you sure that you want to /imply/ that an image viewer, or web
browser in your example, is not bug ridden? I'm sure we could
all point to one very well known and buggy web browser, and I'm
sure there have been a few potential security problems relating
to both JPEG and PNG in recent years.
Grant
My apologies to all authors of pointless document format reading
software other than Adobe.