PDF files have several advantages over files in original format in that they are platform-independent, that no loss of formatting occurs and that you do not need to have the software version with which they were created.
You can edit and process the exported images without any restrictions whatsoever. Thus, Visum network displays can be easily made accessible for further flexible processing in DTP, layout and image editing software. In a *.pdf file imported into, for example, Macromedia FreeHand 8.0, all lines, surfaces, labels etc. can be freely edited.
There are also no problems using the Portable Document Format (PDF) of Adobe for displays on the Internet (e.g. in Internet Browser) and in interactive media. It can contain hyperlinks, comments and bookmarks and supports various compression formats such as JPEG or LZW. Last but not least, *.pdf documents can be indexed by search engines such as Excite for Web Servers.
