PDFs, however, are inaccessible to people with visual impairments and are problematic for limited-literate audiences or people who rely on translation/voice-generation tools.....
ac Kunga wrote: > Why do I want to publish PDFs to the Apple iTunes Multimedia > Reception System (AiMRS)? > > Because PDFs are real small and efficient for layouts that STAY PUT > with all the fonts etc that you layout. And so readers can have a non- > web document that they can use/read when off line. I am building the > kind that have working links too. PDFs let us present the information > in a different way than the browser does. > > Perfect example is my new post going up tonight regarding our World's > Best appointment by THE INDEPENDENT. I have gone to great lengths to > layout one version for the web while offering a different and perhaps > easier to read layout after printing from THE INDEPENDENT website. In > a sense I have printed for the subscriber via the PDF they can get in > a flash automatically with their iTunes subscription. I love that > multimedia flexibility. These PDFs have working links I made with > Acrobat 6 Professional. So I have a PDF of the article from the web > with links that is only 692k being served from the Archive.org. Then > I have another different looking version you get when you print from > the web to PDF with links for my subscribers that is only 96k. One > may also download both from the site post. Today they got the > original article web look with links. Tomorrow they get the web > printout as the Independent intended with links. The AiMTS makes it > easy for me to present these kinds of documents to the subscriber > base to complement the audio and video they receive at other times. I > have attached a copy to this post for all of the members to enjoy > passing around to their friends and family. > > In a few words the reason for PDFs is control over layout and > persistent LINKS that work no matter how many times that document > changes hands. > > > While a small (file size) 556k jpeg or less of the article may appear > as a graphical attachment to an email or a post with no active links, > this even smaller 96k PDF Web Printout has active links to all the > Cream of the Crop Sites when you open it in OS X Preview or Acrobat. > This does not appear as a graphic because it is two pages long: > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > This will be in tomorrow's post with hyperlinks to all 12 sites listed > in the post as well. > > Moreover, I can create a replica of the link-less 556k jpeg file to a > link-rich 692k pdf that is almost as small, attach it to this email > like a jpeg so it will perform the double function of a visible > attachment in mail and when double clicked on, a document with active > links for you to go directly to the cream of the crop sites without > having to go out to the INDEPENDENT page in the first place where some > of the links are wrong which I have corrected in these documents. > Here's that attachment which because it is a single page pdf appears > like a jpeg would as well. I spent the night stitching and linking just > for you Joshua. This was two jpeg screen shots to begin with. Imported > to PhotoShop CS, combined into one long tall file, then exported to > compressed pdf where I added all the invisible link boxes right over > everyone's Site Names and URLs plus over the INDEPENDENT masthead and > copyright tag in the above printed version. I was going to put off this > kind of work until later, but you called me on it Josh so I had to meet > the challenge. It IS a lot of extra work. But you see I am serious > about the quality of my posts. > > I still know nothing about how to create HTML email with Macs. Anyone > know BTW? > > Man I was up all night finishing part one of that two part post. I'll > have everyone's site URLs up on the next post. They are in the PDFs you > can get now or already have if you subscribe. That was a LOT of work. > -- ----------------------------------- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media & Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldivide.net http://www.tsunami-info.org Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com ----------------------------------- ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
