Re: PDF for Online documents

[Stephen Forrest <techwriter -at- IBM -dot- NET>]

At 10:40 AM 9/16/97 -0400, Valarie Tassari wrote:

>I think Adobe has distributed the Acrobat Reader to get us all hooked on
the technology, and has intentionally created it with limited functionality.
The Acrobat Exchange (which costs ~ $400) allows you to connect to any given
page in a PDF document.  It's a smart move for them.

There's something I don't understand. Perhaps someone can help me out, here.
I finally broke down and downloaded the Acrobat Reader, because there were
some documents I wanted that were in PDF format. I've put off getting
familiar with PDF because I never needed it and there were too many other
things to do. However, it's kind of an important technology, so I was
excited I was gonna  find out what all the fuss is about -- until I saw my
first PDF document. It's terrible! It's almost unusable. This is a document
from a source that should be able to produce a fully professional-looking
PDF, and would have an incentive to do so. I have good equipment, running
full-screen, so how come it looks so bad? That can't be normal. Am I doing
something wrong?

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