IAS Website - Use of .PDF Files

From: Don Burns <burns at mobot.org> on 1998.01.16 at 20:46:08(1839) I am considering the use of portable data format (pdf) files on the IAS website for publishing certain kinds of documents. PDF files, readable and printable with Adobe Acrobat on Mac, PC (Windows 9~, NT, 3.1), Unix and even OS2 platforms, can be designed such that they will print in a normal paper article format with page breaks, page numbers and embedded graphics. Thus you could, if you so wished, download a file and print it in an article or book-like format without having to alter the file to get what you wanted. The use of these files is not yet very common on the web, but will become so in time. PDF files have become quite common on company intranets already. Adobe Acrobat Reader is free and is available in your favorite flavor at . For those of you familiar with PDF, I am interested in hearing comments, pro and con, about its use. It seems to me to be an ideal format for web publishing of scholarly papers, especially when graphics are involved. Please send any comments to me at my MoBot address . Don +More Don Burns Plantation, FL USA Zone 10b

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