Christian Mayer schrieb:
...
Generally bad is totally wrong. It is generally good... ;)
In AcrobatReader it displays for me (under Windows) much nicer than e.g.
GhostView. And it definitely has search ability and hyperlinking.
m2c, please check your sources before you make such strong claims as you
did.
CU,
Christian
Hi,
first of all I want to use the opportunity to thank Stuart Buchanan for
his excellent tutorial (and all the other people having done tutorial
work). This is an absolute "must" for a serious flightsim, information
have to be "on hand" and I am thankful for the new possibility to get
key-help and help for aircrafts directly in the sim.
But what Christian tells in a very absolute way does *not* match my
experiences.
We exchange very regularly documents in our department, we have 35
recipients(32 Win XP, 3 Apple). For a short time (3 months) we switched
over to the *.pdf format because it seemed to be an easier handling
(only 1 file!, print-out much better/you can select a range of pages to
print out, better formating, etc) but we got a lot a complaints and the
people were not satisfied:
1. Acrobat Reader (7.0) is sometimes *very* slow when you have a
document of several pages
(I can only say thats true on my Athlon 2500 PC with 768 MB RAM and a
128 MB video card)
2. People wanted to *edit* the documents for their own use as they use
them for *serious work* and not just for fun.
(I learned from that complaint and actually compose my own documents out
of the important parts of several others).
3. If you use a program to *search* through several directories of you
HD and display the results so that you just click the file-names to
display the content it is *much* faster with a browser than Acrobat
Reader. (WanyWord)
4. You can create your own table of contents with links to all *.htm/l
documents of a directory with ie.( DIR2HTML 1.1.x)
5. If you have different versions of the same document you can easily
compare it with (TextDiff) (although the formatting commands are
displayed you can see where the changes are and how it has been changed)
(All free programs for Win32)
Ok, one can see that there are arguments for either Acrobat Reader and
HTM/L files. One has to make a decision.
I just wanted to add the *very unexpected* results of a practical
"experiment".
Anyway, *.htm/l or *.pdf, the more tutorials, documents and
helping-files we'll get, the better it is.
Thank you all who are contributing.
Regards
Georg
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