In a corporate world a Wolfram Enterprise Private Cloud installation on a company server, accessible only to the intranet or selected users, could very well be an approved way of easily sharing Notebooks, packages and scrips. I am sure if Wolfram would, say, for a year or so, provide well-known-companies with existing Wolfram customers a reasonably-prized (or free) version of a WEPC, it would be quite a success. Since then the problem of effortless sharing Mathematica notebooks with non-Mathematica colleauges is kind of solved; all those colleauges would need is a standard browser and a reasonably fast connection to the intranet installed WEPC (Linux) virtual machine. Sure, even the WEPC is not as fast regarding Dynamic interactions as desktop Mathematica or CDF Player, but it is faster than the public cloud, since there is less delay, and WEPC (JavaScript) technology is improving ( though ununderstandably there is always a noticable delay between public and private cloud releases ).

For me and the world I live in PDF is essential. For sure CDF and cloud hosted notebooks have a place. And in some situations can be the way to go. But many of the calculation notebooks I produce are intended to be static documents and, more often than not, will form part of a larger report prepared using a host of other software tools (e.g. word processors, CAD applications, etc, etc.). Also, pretty much everyone has a PDF reader installed on their computer, tablet device and smartphone. So for them to view, use and reshare with others a PDFd notebook requires zero effort.

I totally get what WR is aiming for with CDF and cloud hosting and don’t discourage such strategies. But for the practical reasons mentioned above, I’d like to see more effort put into making the generation of report quality PDF notebooks ‘just work’ out of the box. The addition of other ‘standard’ features such as being able to change paper size and orientation at any point within a notebook would also be welcomed.

Generating a report quality PDF From Mathematica notebooks can be challenging. And is something I wish would be addressed. Preferably before I retire ;-)

This is an important question. I wish you had started a new thread for it.

I don't know of a solution that I am 100% happy with. I either save as PDF (not print to PDF, but save as PDF!) or I use the cloud.

1. Printing to pdf often cuts off graphics and they are only partially contained in the file.

Useful tricks:

• Adjust the margins and make them smaller.
• Normal size graphics are not cut off. I assume you increased their size. One trick I occasionally use is ImageSize -> Full, which makes the graphics as wide as the notebook. This makes them as big as possible without cutting anything off. Drawback: 1) doesn't play well with legends 2) if you like to make your notebooks full-screen, the graphics will be too large when viewed on-screen.

I find that in order to make this work well, I need to plan in advance. I write the notebook knowing that I'll need to convert it to PDF, and I pat attention to graphics sizes.

1. The cloud is not the answer when one wants to share Mathematica notebooks within a company and protect proprietary information.

You can protect the notebook with a password. This is what I usually do.