On 2010-01-30 19:26:49 -0500, Dave Balderstone
said:

PDF has its place, but the web isn't it.

Not for display online, perhaps, but it's remarkably efficient for
transporting gobs of data, even it that data began as TIFFs. I was able
to download a 400+ -page book yesterday, OCR it, and have a searchable
file in about a half-hour. How long would it have taken to page through
a paper document? How long would it have taken to page through the PDF?
A lot longer than the searchable PDF, though the paper document would
have have been quicker than non-searchable PDF.

But enough of this -- let's go make sawdust!