"In the cloud," Chloe said.
"And I can see the picture."
Chloe nodded. "That's the secret. There is no 'one PaperPort.' There's just a workflow that doesn't suck."
It wasn't perfect. It couldn't open his old .max files directly. But Chloe spent a weekend converting the old archives to PDF/A (using a bulk converter called PDF24 ). They lost the specific "Categories" tree, but Eagle let them tag everything with colors. Arthur could drag a photo of a stained-glass window onto a "rose window" tag and it just worked .
Chloe went home that night, frustrated. Then, at 2 AM, it hit her.
"I am a simple man," Arthur wept. "I just want to see a picture of a doorknob next to a picture of a hinge. I don't need a 'semantic relationship engine.'"
But Arthur tried to drag a thumbnail from one PDF into another. In PaperPort, you just moved the page. In Acrobat, the page duplicated, then the program crashed.
He dragged it into Eagle, tagged it #marble #1880s, and dropped it next to a photo of a similar mantle he had sold in 2005.