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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:18:32 ADT
mgraffam@mhv.net
Tue, 16 Jun 1998 00:18:23 -0400 (EDT)
On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Sprokkit Amhal wrote:
> Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com> wrote:
> >PDF seems to be pretty universal right now, and pretty good for most
> >purposes.
>
>
> Is there any advantage of PDF over HTML? HTML is network transparent
> and human readable, and that goes a long way....
The major advantage is in the way of graphics. With HTML you need to
declare inline images, which are external files. Filenames across
platforms becomes difficult, because long names may get truncated which
will affect the links inside the document. Plus its messy.
Michael J. Graffam (mgraffam@mhv.net)
http://www.mhv.net/~mgraffam -- Philosophy, Religion, Computers, Crypto, etc
"..the isle is full of noises, sounds and sweet airs that give delight and
hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments will hum about mine
ears, and sometimes voices.." Caliban, Shakespeare's "The Tempest"
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:18:32 ADT