PDF

[Dominik Pluess]

I wish PM could do pdf's.

best

Dominik

[Kirk Baker]

Dominik,

I wish PM could do pdf's.

What do you mean?  Do you want PM to print to PDF?  Render previews of PDFs?  What do you want PM to do with PDFs?

-Kirk

[dandill]

I would like to be able us PM to add/edit metadata to PDF's.

Dan Dill

[Dominik Pluess]

It would be cool to preview PDF's. Very Often I'll get the finished product of a brochure or flyer as a pdf.
I wish, I could display that in my portfolio in a web gallery, created in PM.
or
I'm browsing throu my images and staff on my desktop. As a browser, it should be able to read as many graphic
related files as possible.
or
displaying a contact copie PDF created in PM.

Dominik

[Kirk Baker]

Dominik,

It would be cool to preview PDF's. Very Often I'll get the finished product of a brochure or flyer as a pdf.
I wish, I could display that in my portfolio in a web gallery, created in PM.
or
I'm browsing throu my images and staff on my desktop. As a browser, it should be able to read as many graphic
related files as possible.
or
displaying a contact copie PDF created in PM.

Photo Mechanic is a digital photo browser workflow tool.  Its focus is on the fast presentation of digital photos.  PDF is not a file format that is produced by any camera on the market.

PDFs are easily rendered on Mac OS X.  There is no OS-supplied method for rendering PDFs on Windows that I know of.  We looked into licensing some PDF tools on Windows but the licensing terms were excessive.  No one wants to pay an additional $50.00 just to render PDFs on Windows.

I think it is very important to keep Photo Mechanic's focus on files produced by digital cameras.

-Kirk

[steverussell]

I had the same question a few months ago,
I use PM all the time and since it has become so good at displaying images,
I use it for presentations all the time.
I would love PDF display for selfish reasons, I would make thinks much easier for me to display slideshows that include pdfs of how the pictures are used without me having to convert them through photoshop.
But if it means that much of a price jump, I guess I'll still use a program like iPhoto or iView.

[bazography]

I think it is very important to keep Photo Mechanic's focus on files produced by digital cameras.

-Kirk

I'll second that. Too many slow, bloated, let's-try-to-do-everything type programs already, and photographers love PM because it is exactly the opposite. If you need presentation software, try Keynote or PowerPoint.