Adobe Acrobat and Capture

[Earl Young]

     WebPublisher (http://www.skisoft.com) is far ahead of the others in 
     the longer-document category.  We have tested Adobe Capture, HTML 
     Transit, the SoftQuad HotMetal Information Manager, and WebPublisher - 
     and WebPublisher is comfortably ahead of the others  It runs in batch 
     or file-by-file, is configurable, and the firm that writes it is still 
     small enough to still care about their craft.
     
     We do a fairly high volume of conversion work - several hundred 
     different documents from varying sources is not unusual - and use Perl 
     for some of it and WebPublisher for the rest.
     
     Earl Young


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Subject: Adobe Acrobat and Capture
Author:  wpl at quick.net at INTERNET
Date:    5/15/97 2:32 PM


I have perused the Web4Lib archives messages pertaining to Adobe 
Acrobat and have found some helpful discussions regarding the 
distinctions between PDF and HTML in terms of function and design.  
My question, however, is fairly rudimentary:  do I want to use Adobe 
Acrobat to create reproductions of paper forms to be accessible via 
the Web?  I want to allow folks who view the Web site to make copies 
of the forms, manually fill them out and mail or fax 'em back.  (That 
is, I do not want to allow completion and delivery of the forms via 
the Web at this stage.)
     
Are there alternatives to Acrobat?
     
Finally, has anybody used either Adobe Capture or HTML Transit to 
convert lengthy documents to HTML?  Any preferences or cautions?
     
Dean C. Rowan
Whittier Public Library