Adobe Acrobat

[David Risner]

On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, KAREN SCHNEIDER wrote:

> One other solution: HTML.  At the risk of sounding like a crank
> on this, Adobe Acrobat adds a level of support that not all libraries
> have.   If your equipment budget for this year stopped at electric
> pencil sharpeners, you may need to rethink what you're
> producing (or buying) in light of what you can use.  

This is exactly correct.  HTML was created for the express purpose of
allowing the client to adjust their settings to make the information
readable to them on whatever computer they were using.  Acrobat has the
opposite philosophy.  If forces the page to look exactly the way the author
wants it to which in the computer world means you will force it to be
unreadable to some people.

I believe you can use Ghostscript together with a postscript to HTML
converter to convert your PDF files to HTML files.  The latest version of
GhostScript is available at ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/aladdin.

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