RE: Nielsen's Rating (of PDF)

[Kim Roper <kim -dot- roper -at- vitana -dot- com>]

Darren Barefoot said:
> 
> For example: I've got our 500-page manual posted in HTML 
> format on our Web
> site. I determine that, doh, 5 screenshots are incorrect. I retake the
> screenshots, upload the new versions, and I'm done. If it was 
> posted in PDF
> format, I'd have to insert the images in the source, then 
> re-distill the
> source and post the PDF to the site. 

There is probably no need to redistill the entire manual for the sake of a
few screen shots.  It is possible to insert the new shots in the source file
and distill only the changed pages.  Open the original PDF file in Acrobat
and replace the appropriate pages.  

This could amount to a little or a lot more work than I've indicated if the
new shots create different page breaks (especially if you have hyperlinked
cross-references), but if the shots are the same dimensions as the
originals, this is a much faster way of incorporating the changes.

Cheers ... Kim
mailto:kim -dot- roper -at- vitana -dot- com

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- me  

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