pdf's of Acts

[Brian Gladman]

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Hansen" <davidh@spidacom.co.uk>
To: <ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 4:41 PM
Subject: Re: pdf's of Acts


> 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.

The layout of documents contains information that can be important and I
would not want a format used that discards this.

> > 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.

And excellent at maintaining the form of documents.  I agree that it can
produce large files but this is rarely excessive when compared with other
formats that preserve appearance.

> 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).

Its not that hard to edit PDF files.

My guess from this discussion is that more than one format will be needed in
order to satisfy most people.

   Brian Gladman