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On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 09:12:24AM +0000, Tom Potts wrote: > On Friday 05 January 2007 16:18, Benjamin A'Lee wrote: > I agree - but I've yet to see documentation that cant be done just as well in > HTML - in fact frequently better because things like bookmarks can be made to > work more easily, free flowing the parts of a document that are suitable > means you can view multiple documents on screen simultaneously - something > that cant be done easily with 'page formatted' documents - try putting two > pdf or word documents side by side on screen for comparison and then try the > same with two free flowing HTML documents. PDF is a tree killer! > As for content re-use - and to some extent isn't that what FLOSS is about? > PDFs make that difficult. If you want to modify a PDF ore extract some image > from it then you need an editor - which is either cash or disk expensive or > both. But the data is not secure in it - if you can read it you can read > it..PDFs wont provide security just inconvenience. > While there may be some real use for PDF's (other than force of habit) IMHO > they should never be used for simple communication. We may have cheap > terrabyte disk arrays and some of us have fast ADSL but downloading a 500k > pdf document on a phone modem to discover its just a couple of A4 pages and a > few dozen subtly different fonts that would have fitted in 10k of HTML and > been just as readable......and at least with HTML you could have used CSS and > changed the appearance of the document at the drop of a style sheet. And as > for changing the phone number of head office and finding you've 10billion > word and pdf documents spread over 10 thousand pcs's to update........ > Yes Going on with the earlier discussion, this is what I like about GNU/Linux and what I like about this UserGroup: there are always other ways of doing things. Some may be a lot better I HATE receiving pdf files when a simple text email would do and I HATE proprietory file formats -- Henry Sat Jan 6 12:43:30 GMT 2007
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