Re: PDF on website

At 11:18 AM 6/29/01 +0100, Trevor Lockwood wrote:
>Can I make a plea for .pdf files to be formatted to fit browsers - and not
>Letter or A4 pages? That means the file can be read onscreen without
>scrolling. So much easier for the reader.

At 11:18 AM 6/29/01 +0100, you wrote:
>Can I make a plea for .pdf files to be formatted to fit browsers - and not
>Letter or A4 pages? That means the file can be read onscreen without
>scrolling. So much easier for the reader.

Trevor,

Than why not create an html document? I thought pdfs were for printing out, 
hence the letter or A4 sizes? And an html document is much easier to search 
and deal with online anyway.

Here is an interesting article by Jakob Nielsen, "Avoid PDF for On-Screen 
Reading"
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20010610.html

just a thought.


Kimiko Drew
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