pdf's of Acts

[Dave Howe]

David Hansen wrote:
> On 28 Nov 2002 at 17:12, Brian Gladman wrote:
>
>> The layout of documents contains information that can be important
>> and I would not want a format used that discards this.
>
> HTML does not discard the layout. However, it does not slavishly try
> and keep the layout precisely the same on every output device, to the
> detriment of readability.
a *lot* can be decided by the browser in the case of html - paragraph layout
being the most obvious, but font is another biggie - rendered in a
completely different font, some characters could well remap where the
original author didn't expect them to.... and of course html has no concept
of pages (although there is no reason you couldn't just add a HR every time
a page break is intended - but it wouldn't print well)
PDF and PS are really designed to transfer a set of sheets of paper (with
information on them) to another set of sheets of paper elsewhere as
accurately and as platform-independently as possible. file sizes come
secondary to that, and unfortunately that shows somewhat.