Re[3]: HTML v. Acrobat (was Electronic File Transfer)

[Rick Sapir <rick_sapir -at- GILBARCO -dot- COM>]

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Subject: Re[2]: HTML v. Acrobat (was Electronic File Transfer)
From:    Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- jci -dot- com at ~GATEWAY
Date:    3/6/96  7:24 AM

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>________________________________________________________________
>Subject: Re[2]: HTML v. Acrobat (was Electronic File Transfer)
>From:    Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- jci -dot- com at ~GATEWAY
>Date:    3/6/96  7:24 AM

>      Acrobat is great for putting a carbon copy of an 8.5" by 11" page on
>      a computer screen, but who wants to read _that_? I'm not saying you
>      couldn't design a document for online distribution first, and then
>      "compile" it with Acrobat. I'm sure you can. From experience though,
>      people don't.

>You make a good point point; the best tool in the world is no good unless
>it is used prerly. Unfortunately, there are *no* documentation delivery
>systems in existence that cannot be misused or abused. None of them force
>the creator to use them properly.

Wait a sec. Are we talking about online _distribution_ (or "Electronic File
Transfer" as the original message thread was titled) or online viewing? I think
there is a vast difference. For distribution, Acrobat is the only way to ensure
that they document, when finally printed by the end-user, will look exactly the
way it was intended to look. This is very important for my documents, which
carry a lot of legal and safety issues.

[snip]

>Adobe is working on a way to read a PDF doc one page at a time over the
>net. I wonder if, after MS and Netscape stand panting over the torn and
>bleeding corpse of HTML, Adobe's method will be the *only* way of
>delivering documentation that gives you some reason to hope that what
>you've done ends up being something the user will find readable.


The "Amber" version of Acrobat (currently available in beta) allows you to do
exactly this. It will help eliminate all the "must use version X of XXXX to
properly render this web page" notices that seem to be on everyone's web
pages.


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 Rick Sapir                                 Gilbarco, Inc.
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