pdf's of Acts

[David Hansen]

On 28 Nov 2002 at 15:50, Brian Gladman wrote:

> The very last thing I would want is such documents in html format
> since I find this useless in maintaining a close correspondence
> between the screen and print versions of documents.

There is no need. It is the information that matters, not how it 
looks.
 
> I am really quite surprised that David hates the PDF format since I
> find this to be an excellent format.

It's excellent at producing bloated files that take a long time to 
download.

It's advantages, assuming a belief that it doesn't matter what 
information looks like, are to do with control of modifications 
(though no doubt this can be broken if necessary).


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