Re: New images

[George L Smyth <glsmyth@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Symon <fokww@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> To : George/Todd/Dan/Don (and other members who came across difficulties at 
> my site)
> 
> george:
>  >Why does the site require Adobe Acrobat? Why not simply use the browser to
>  >display the images? This is a problem for me, as I have never been able to
>  >integrate Acrobat with my browser. This means that I can't see your
> pictures.
> Acrobat PDF documents (here the images) have several advantages over common 
> graphics files, to name just a few :
> - security (printing/changing can be prohibited) and fingerprinting 
> (digital sigature can be added)
> - bookmark and general info (author/title/subject) can be inclueded
> - the initial viewing size can be set
> - images displayed on a web page can be rotated and zoomed.
> If you can integrate the reader with your browser, please refer the 
> instructions posted on the top page of my site 
> :  www.acad.polyu.edu.hk/~fokww/HoIR.html

I can do an Alt-Print Screen to capture the image.  That would get around any
signatures.  I can bookmark and include whatever information I want on a
simple, quickly downloaded HTML page.  Why would I ever want to rotate someone
else's image?

Finally, you say, "If you can integrate the reader with your browser ..."  I've
worked with computers for 20 years (starting with my TI99/4A in 1981), so I do
have a bit of experience with computers.  In light of this, I have given up
with trying to get Acrobat to work properly with IE5.5.  Certainly, others have
been able to do so, but I have not (actually, it works at home but not at work,
which is where I would have looked at the images - same browser, same version
of Acrobat).  Considering my experience, there are sure to be numerous other
people with the same problem.

The problem is that very few people are going to be able to see your work.  As
a Webmaster (my profession) I have found that usability is the most important
element of a Web site (content is certainly important, but if the user cannot
access it, then it is worthless).

I would highly recommend a visit to http://www.useit.com/, where you can read
the Alertbox colums that address usability specifically.  It would be a shame
for you to have gone through so much work with the result being seen by so few
people.  I think that the comments you are reading here are representative of
the problem.

Cheers -

george

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http://members.home.net/hmpi/

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