[WEB4LIB] RE: PDF versus HTML

[Mark A Bardsley]

In Walt's commentary regarding why he uses PDF he states as one of his reasons: so that people will print it out. Walt feels that Cites and Insights is too long to be read online.

Mark Bardsley

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Charlie Irwin wrote:

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>> John,
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>> | When should PDF be used and when should HTML be used?
>> [--jimm replies]
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>> 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
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> 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.
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> Charlie Irwin
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> "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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