Originally Posted by Evo
This is a very common misconception - PDF is much more than that.
The reason I say that is how PDF works for all the many and various vastly different applications its able to be used for. They all have one thing in common, you can print them. Its this print output which converts (or is converted) to PDF, hence a Word document of 50Mb can be reduced to a 100Kb PDF.
I'm more than happy to be corrected though
BD