[WEB4LIB] RE: PDF versus HTML

[Charlie Irwin]

>John,
>
>| When should PDF be used and when should HTML be used?
>[--jimm replies]
>
>Walt Crawford recently commented on why he distributes his _Cites &
>Insights_ newsletter in PDF rather than HTML
><http://cites.boisate.edu/civ5i5.pdf>.  It basically comes down to control
>over the format and time for him.  It is simply faster and easier to get a
>newsletter or magazine article distributed in the layout one wishes with

I stopped reading Cites & Insights after it went to PDF simply because the 
amount of scrolling I had to do to read a two column newsletter was too 
annoying. Forcing a paper layout onto a computer screen is not necessarily 
a favor to the viewer.

Charlie Irwin



"A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are for.
Sail out to sea and do new things."
Grace Hopper



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