I would not currently recommend using PDF for long term storage. We have 
one department who has been creating PDFs for many years. We cannot update 
to the adobe 7.0 due to issues with opening and reading files
created by the 5.0 version of Adobe. At my previous place of employment I 
had spoken to Adobe regarding version 7.0. They recognized the fact that 
there are issues with version 7.0 reading 5.0 and did not recommend 
upgrading from version 6.0. 
 

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On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:31:13 -0800, Jay Maechtlen 
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Only a few apps will open a PDF, and the common ones are pretty reliable.
From what I've seen, if a PDF is legal, it will display just fine in
Acrobat Reader.
This means that, for desktop, so there's less liklihood for problems with
PDF.

For long-term storage, PDF may actually be better than TIFF?

I wouldn't bet much money either way, though.

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