pdf's of Acts

[Peter Fairbrother]

David Swarbrick wrote:

> 
> The point is that if you think th enative format for a piece is paper,
> then .pdf is fine. In whucxh case keep it off the web!

The native format for Acts of Parliamnent IS pieces of paper. The definitive
version being the Queen's Printer's version, even if it's not the same as
the version passed by Parliament...

> I have to use some Capital Taxes Office pdfs. They look lovely. They
> are a complete bastard to fill in on screen because they do not do what
> they say they will.
> 
> Other Stamp Office pdfs are simple images of a document stuffed inside
> a pdf. They are awful.
> 
> Sometimes pdfs open in Explorer but not Netscape and vice versa.
> Sometimes they are searchable and sometimes they are not.

That's bad preparation of pdf's by the ignorant. Do you think they would
prepare HTML any better?

> 
> Thinking about it brings back years of frustration  at the damn things.
> I thought I had got over it (I learned the right click/save as trick).
> Why should I have to.

Agreed. But that's your browser's fault.

Can't you change the behaviour in the "file helpers" preferences? You can in
IE for Mac, but I don't know about IE for Windows.


-- 
Peter Fairbrother