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


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