Marianne, Our company izzydesign (izzydesign.com) uses PDF brochures in a "Downloadable tools" section. When I was involved in designing the site we ran through several rounds of research and decided that we would offer PDFs. There were a few reasons for this:
1. That is what our sales force wanted. The request was to have easy-to-download and print files. 2. PDF downloads were the easiest solution at the time. We already had the files and it was easy to post them for download 3. With our audience and my inability to often successfully implement new technology in an easy to use solution (why I joined this group...needed to learn more) the PDF seemed to be a good fix. All that said there have been some drawbacks. 1. For things like fabric swatches (we need these for sampling of our chairs) PDFs must be extremely large with hi-res files. Our fabric PDFs have been miserable failures 2. The linear fashion doesn't fit web very well. Putting something that has been designed for print online causes some issues. If I want to search and get specific info, it is much more difficult with PDFs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=24885 ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
