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<blockquote data-quote="Randy B. Singer" data-source="post: 1886826" data-attributes="member: 190607"><p>A PDF isn't a "document transfer method". It is a document file format. A transfer method would be e-mail, snail mail, commercial courier, text message, etc.</p><p></p><p>The PDF format is not a secure format. Even a flattened PDF can be fairly easily intercepted and changed by someone with minimal technological ability. PDF's were originally intended to be a least common denominator format for exchanging documents without regard for what computer or programs the receiver has. PDF's are designed to open-able, readable, and to look the way they were intended to. Adobe Acrobat does include a password/security feature for PDF's, but it isn't a universal feature and it thus hasn't caught on and become popular.</p><p></p><p>A fax transmission isn't particularly secure, but it's what certain entitles are comfortable with. There are nice, open source, easy to use, encrypted ways to transfer files via e-mail, and you would expect that would be what just about all institutions would be using by now, but many institutions (especially government institutions) are very slow to change.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Randy B. Singer, post: 1886826, member: 190607"] A PDF isn't a "document transfer method". It is a document file format. A transfer method would be e-mail, snail mail, commercial courier, text message, etc. The PDF format is not a secure format. Even a flattened PDF can be fairly easily intercepted and changed by someone with minimal technological ability. PDF's were originally intended to be a least common denominator format for exchanging documents without regard for what computer or programs the receiver has. PDF's are designed to open-able, readable, and to look the way they were intended to. Adobe Acrobat does include a password/security feature for PDF's, but it isn't a universal feature and it thus hasn't caught on and become popular. A fax transmission isn't particularly secure, but it's what certain entitles are comfortable with. There are nice, open source, easy to use, encrypted ways to transfer files via e-mail, and you would expect that would be what just about all institutions would be using by now, but many institutions (especially government institutions) are very slow to change. [/QUOTE]
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