PDF vs. DWF

[ghale]

I'd like to open this discussion back up again to see where firms are at with adopting DWF as a standard form of print and file collaboration. I'm trying to take all items into considerations for changing an office workflow and standard. Some questions:

How do you find the current print quality of PDF vs DWF?
Are all submission tools for large format plotters accepting DWF?
Does the Internet Exporer 8 DWF viewer work well or do clients still need to install Design Review?
Is DWF an acceptable digital archiving format? PDF Archive is the industry standard.
Are project teams utilizing the collaboration tools for redlining and round tripping to Revit and AutoCAD?

[Avatart]

How do you find the current print quality of PDF vs DWF?
Are all submission tools for large format plotters accepting DWF?
Does the Internet Exporer 8 DWF viewer work well or do clients still need to install Design Review?
Is DWF an acceptable digital archiving format? PDF Archive is the industry standard.
Are project teams utilizing the collaboration tools for redlining and round tripping to Revit and AutoCAD?

To answer one at a time:
DWF is more accurate, but PDF looks nicer. Judgment call there.
Never had a problem with our Hewlett Packards or Oces.
E8 DWF viewer works very well in my experience. Especially DWFx files, which you can spin around in websites, coooool.
DWF is a better archive format than PDF, as most of the originating data is still there.
Don't actually know of anyone using the redline markup tools properly.

[kalua123]

Been using DWF’s for a long time.... I'm a big fan of the software.. PDF redline features are in my opinion rubbish. DWF is more intuitive, Areas, dimensions etc. very easy to pull, great when you are reviewing with a client and you can pull the info up, Printing problems do occur, Font substitution was a common problem but it can be fixed, also most print problems can be fixed by using the Advanced option and Convert to BMP prior to printing. Have to say PDF is not suited to these types of Docs, Markup, Regeneration time, file size all hobble the format for me... Also the very underutilized DWF compare feature is a joy when you are using standard output templates, you can very quickly determine what changed sheet to sheet. Been pushing Dwf to clients for years, software is free and easy to pickup once they get a feel for it they want to use it..