Thanks to all re: Adobe Acrobat and Capture

[Earl Young]

     Converting PDF to HTML is not for the faint-of-heart and you will find 
     scant assistance from Adobe in the process.  They just don't think 
     that way - and they are in business of selling Acrobat and use the 
     reader as a way to help that selling process.  You'll need access to a 
     programmer very comfortable with C and Perl to do PDF-to-HTML, and 
     they'll need to know how to handle "make" commands, integrate 
     ghostscript and wp2html, and a couple of other things before they'll 
     be ready for the conversion.
     
     Earl Young


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Subject: Thanks to all re: Adobe Acrobat and Capture
Author:  wpl at quick.net at INTERNET
Date:    5/20/97 11:48 AM


We quickly received a number of responses via the list as well as 
directly.  Thank you to all who responded.  The suggestions have been 
variously favorable and not favorable with respect to Adobe.  We 
appreciate the references to sites discussing and employing the 
available technologies.
     
We will explore the suggested alternatives in addition to the Adobe 
products.  Two respondents (direct via e-mail, not the list) argued 
that the major problem with Acrobat and similar products is simply 
that many people are not prepared to follow through with them, i.e., 
to download them, set them up, integrate them with their browsers, 
etc.  A lot of people might not even recognize that they are setting 
up software which might be useful to them in the future.  Such are 
the symptoms of rapid change.  These respondents suggested 
conversion to HTML, an alternative which I don't think will be 
available to us, given the nature of the documents we hope to 
deliver.
     
Dean C. Rowan
Whittier Public Libraryu