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P3D Re: RE: Fred Peters' View CD project

  • From: Peter Davis <pd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: P3D Re: RE: Fred Peters' View CD project
  • Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 12:56:20 -0400
At 12:40 PM 5/11/98 , you wrote:
>Dan Shelley wrote:
>> > We decided to use Acrobat so PC's and MAC's have equal access.
>> 
>> Not necessary - Do it all in HTML and ALL platforms will have
>> access, and you will have smaller files.
>> 
>
>The Acrobat reader is available for all but the most esoteric of
>platforms and PDF is vastly superior to HTML, especially in dealing with
>graphic and image content.  It is the de facto standard in the
>scientific and technical community as well as most intranets.
>
>The only downside to PDF is that you must buy the creation software from
>Adobe, AFAIK.

Actually, there are both free and commercial applications that can produce
PDF.  Aladdin Ghostscript, which is a free PostScript interpreter for Mac,
Windows and Unix, and output PDF.

>I much prefer pdf to html.

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