Re: document formats

From: Alex Ferguson <abf_at_cs.ucc.ie>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 00:58:57 +0100 (BST)

Nils Weinander:
> John Hughes loves PDF, Donald Oddy hates it and prefers HTML,
> (Alex seems to end somewhere in the middle). I'd say there's
> a place for both in onloije resources: short pieces for
> online reading in HTML, longer pieces for download and print
> on PDF.

While admittedly one can read PDF online (though not inbrowser, at least not with my setup...), my feeling is more that as a format it's seeking to combine the worst features of hard-copy, with the worst features of electronic distribution...

Cheers,
Alex.

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