On Sun, 12 Aug 2001 15:23:56 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote:
> J. J. Young wrote:
>> >I think the reason why web sites make these PDF documents available
>> >is that they want to include pictures and diagrams and graphs.
>> True, but they also want to control the printed layout, and their
>> designers have been sucked into the Adobe way.
> In a local situation, we have dealt with the above issue in a very simple
> manner: 1) Create the page layout you want the viewer to see
> 2)Take a screenshot to BMP it.
> 3)ZBM it.
> This is fast, effective, cheap, pretty much universal, and takes no more
> bandwidth than the typical .pdf. <g>
The problem with this method is that it would result in obtaining
only an image file of some text. You can't use Arachne to view
the graphics found in a PDF file unless you are using some kind of
special converter or plug-in or APM that I haven't heard about.
Sam Heywood
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