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says...
>
>This isn't eggg-zactly a 3000 issue, but since one of our web servers
>is one, I figured I could get away with it ;-)...
>
>I have been playing around with using Adobe Acrobat for making
>documents available from our web site which were originally written
>with WordPerfect (6.1/Win) vs translating into html using one of the
>various methods.
>
>I have pretty much settled on Acrobat because of the ease of use and
>the ability to print an exact copy of the document (well it looks
identical
>to me anyway), and of course the freely available multi-platform
viewers.
>It also helps that large files get smaller!
>
>Anyone else toyed with this?
>Any opinions regarding this?
>
>
>Duane Percox  (QSS)
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Duane:
 
We've used Adobe extensively on our web site with (I think) excellent
results. I was surprised to read David Greer's comments on having
problems with the format-- we tried identical PDF documents on Win95,
Win31 and MAC clients with perfect results. I suppose, like anything
else, the manner in which the PDF files were made and the content within
may have something to do with his problems. The latest version of Adobe
(2.1) seems to work fine for us on all platforms.
 
One reason we use PDF is to distribute files over the net that can have
a password built in. While some of our documents are not password
protected, our software manuals are. This allows us to prevent anyone
but our customers from viewing the file.
 
Another plus: the files can be created just by printing, which can be
quicker than having to reformat to HTML standards.
 
See the results at http://home.navisoft.com/csi6000/edd.htm
 
John Painter
Computer Solutions, Inc.