Re: PDF format

         To piggy back on what Ted wrote:

         One easy thing to note about PDF is what the file extension stands 
for -- Portable Document Format.  (Hoping I remember that correctly.)  It's 
pretty much platform-independent -- to the point that NASA and its 
contractors use it a lot when working in the hybrid Mac/PC/Unix world that 
is the American space program.

         GFM <-- UAH student by day, government contractor by night

At 10:49 AM 5/30/2000 -0700, Ted Temer wrote:
>Jolene:
>
>Converting downloadable files to PDF has many advantages. Some, but hardly
>all, are the following:
>
>With rare exceptions, the font used is embedded automatically into the
>document so that it will print as you intended it.
>
>The images, forms, graphs and format of the page is retained. Thus a page
>with many different elements, (objects), prints just like the original.
>Example: a 1040 tax form.
>
>Adobe Acrobat Readers are free and most serious web surfers already have the
>reader on their machine. If not it is free from www.adobe.com/
>It is a 3-4 meg download however.
>
>The PDF format is for the most part, both browser and operating system
>independent.
>
>Most documents allow the reader to, in effect, OCR the text on the page.
>This allows instant conversion of text to digital files for "copy and paste"
>or importation into the recipient's programs.
>
>As well as Acrobat, many "publishing" programs such as Canvas or PageMaker
>can import and fully edit a PDF file. This allows printers or graphics
>houses to easily update a client's business cards or forms. Or for
>example--download a master form and edit it for use by a local dealer or
>office.
>
>The downsides??
>
>The file size tends to be rather large--kind of similar in size to Word's
>.doc files--so a booklet can take several minutes to download.
>
>And of course--someone, somewhere will have a old version, or slow modem, or
>something that will cause them to find the PDF unacceptable.
>Alas--with the modern super highway of digital information, it is always
>thus ...
>
>Again, the above are only a few examples.
>Best wishes
>Ted Temer
>Temercraft Designs Redding, CA
>temer(at)c-zone.net
>www.temercraft.com/
>www.newsredding.com/
>
>
> > Just out of curiosity, I would like to know what are some of the
>advantages
> > of converting files to PDF format?
> >
> > Jolene Johnson
> > jolenejohnson(at)oursenioryears.com
> > http://www.oursenioryears.com
> >
> >

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