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Originally Posted by Hi-Torque

If you can already export to a format that is universally ready for import and manipulation, why worry about a proprietary format that adds nothing to the final product but file size and restriction?

• PDF is an open format, with plenty of documentation and which can be edited and manipulated by free/open tools
• PDF can contain vector information, which can be scaled at will, while JPEG puts everything on a single raster layer with limited resolution and degrades in quality every time you save it. For instance, I've edited PDF files created from .pdo in order to remove folding lines or rearrange tabs - that's trivial with vectors, not so much with rasters. (I dont't have Pepakura Designer; I'm aware it's possible to hexedit the .pdo in order to remove all folding lines, but that's not always guaranteed)
• PDF has built-in size/resolution information; when printing "pure" raster formats like GIF/JPG/PNG, the final size depends on your system/printer's notion of dpi