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Subject:Re: HTML and PDF files From:"Wayne J. Douglass" <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 21 May 1997 13:29:12 -0700
At 12:16 PM 5/21/97 -0700, Dave Meek wrote:
>PDF files are usually larger than HTML files. Larger means more download
>time. Also, PDF files *might* not be searchable external to the document
>and Acrobat Reader (I still haven't found a definitive answer on this),
>though you should be able to get around this with an HTML "front page" that
>has links to PDF documents.
>
The definitive answer is that not very many applications can index and
search PDF outside Acrobat Reader. My company's products can, and we find it
sometimes gives us a competitive advantage.
--Wayne Douglass
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