[WEB4LIB] Adobe Acrobat

[Avi Rappoport]

At 7:11 AM -0700 7/2/1999, Andrew Mutch wrote:
>I'm interested in hearing from anyone who uses Adobe Acrobat to create PDF
>documents for their web sites.  Specifically, I was hoping to hear your
>experiences using this software including:
>
>- ease of use
>- quality of documents
>- difficulties/things to be aware of
>- integration into web site

I'm not at all a fan of Acrobat on the web.  Most of the time, it's 
overkill -- you can convey the information nicely in HTML.  PDF is 
not thin, text-oriented net file format like HTML.  It takes time and 
bandwidth to download, and then has to launch an application which 
may use up too much memory.   And it's a hassle to index and search, 
and you can't search by pages, just the entire document.

PDF is great for printing tax forms, certificates, brochures, and 
other documents where the appearance is an integral part of the 
information.

I have a page that's has some tips and hints for PDF file 
preparation.  It's a bit search-oriented (my field), but should help 
out: http://www.searchtools.com/info/pdf.html

Avi

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