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 5:22 PM
Subject: Re: pdf's of Acts


> 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.

HTML does not preserve the original layout of a document whereas PDF does
(at least to the best of its ability).

> However, it does not slavishly try and keep the layout precisely the same
> on every output device

Which is exactly the point.  And the changes are not necessarily small.
They can even result in the loss of text if the html is poorly written and
is rendered in an environment that the original authors did not anticipate.

XML (with proper end system support) can be a lot better but support seems
quite variable at the moment.

   Brian Gladman