Re: preserving Vector Text when converting psd to pdf
There is an answer to why PDF files saved (not created via distillation of PostScript) have a .PDF file suffix as opposed to .PDP (in the case of Photoshop) or a .PDF suffix as opposed to some other non-defined "PDF from Illustrator" suffix (in the case of Illustrator). Simply stated, a file with a particular suffix has to be associated with +one and only one+ particular program. The judgement call, for better or worse (and I personally think +better+), was that PDF files saved directly from Photoshop and Illustrator (and of course PDF files exported directly from InDesign) would most commonly be opened by Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader and not as commonly be used as fodder for re-edit. You certainly can choose to directly use a .PDP suffix when you save a PDF file from Photoshop or use a .AI suffix when you save a PDF file from Illustrator (assuming of course you select the re-editability option).
Unfortunately, neither Mac nor Windows lets you associate more than one program with a particular file suffix, perhaps giving you a choice of what to invoke when you double-click. And even if they did, there would be plenty of users who would complain about the extra step for .PDP or .AI files. This is one of those issues where there isn't a clean solution that will please everybody or even a clear majority of users.
- Dov
PS: Update your list as follows: +.PDF retains vectors and text through InDesign and to the RIP - and - retains vectors and text when re-opened in Photoshop.+