pdf's of Acts

[Charles Lindsey]

	On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 06:22:42 +0000
	David Swarbrick <swarb@freeuk.com> said...

> Though the HMSO site Acts are, as you say, chunked, I still see .pdf's 
> as the spawn of the devil. They are inherently 'anti-net', and half the 
> machines I use either do not read or print them properly, and they are 
> awful to use.

When we were all dissecting RIP in the days when it was a Bill, PDFs
were essential, for only with those could you see the line numbers which
were used to specify the points of application of ammendments.

For pure browsing of an Act, HTML may be fine, but if you want a printed
copy, then HTML is useless, because it will split pages at unsuitable
places, omit page nos, and so on.

OTOH, I agree that PDF is too rigid, because there is no way to reformat
it to different paper sizes. A Plague on both their houses :-( .

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