At 11:51 AM 1/26/00 -0500, you wrote: >Jim Self wrote: > > > > > > > >Jim Self wrote: > > > > > >> I finally read Thomas' documentation ( > > >> http://www.gehr.org/gehr_architecture.html) on GEHR (in spite of the > > >> fact :-( that it is PDF ) and was struck with the notion that much of > > > > > >I'm in the midst of translating the diagrams to UML. I can potentially > > >also make the documents available in HTML - is this the format you > > >prefer? (HTML will of course preserve on the most basic formatting). > > > > Yes, I think HTML is far better than PDF for online viewing. PDF always > > seems to make the diagrams ragged and the fonts all fuzzy plus its paging > > and navigation feels generally awkward. PDF files are bad usually because of font problems (generally TeX documents have this problem), but otherwise I find them generally better than HTML and the print very nicely. You can even turn a web site into a PDF document with Acrobat 4.0 which I find very convenient at times. > > > > I would hope that you could retain in HTML the color formatting of your > > Eiffel class descriptions, perhaps with style sheets. > >If browsers could print decently, PDF would be on the ropes, or at least >certainly have a smaller market. As it is, printing a web site or >sub-site is a >real pain. As we make more interactive sites (flash, links to demos, >etc.) the >gulf to span for printing becomes even wider. Maybe we will succeed at >becoming >paperless because we can't print... ;-) Hopefully, Dave >-- >Greg Kreis Pioneer Data Systems, Inc. >[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.PioneerDataSys.com >http://www.Hardhats.org/ <-- worldwide VISTA/DHCP users > >The covers of this book are too far apart. -Ambrose Bierce, reviewing a book
