>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...
I think it's a good compromise to getting documents to as many people as possible. Trying to create forms or nice looking documents in HTML can be a nightmare, never mind turning a 100+ report done in Word or Word Perfect into a web page. Admittedly Acrobat's not perfect, you have to reload documents too often to view them and the files are a pig to print off sometimes (and try and create a correspondance table showing what the keystroke equivalents to the core HW runes are! I spent quite some time doing that this morning only to discover that PDFWriter turned all the rune characters back into a regular font when I went to print it to file).
It's certainly not perfect but you can usually read the results on both Mac and IBM type PCs so until XML is more commonly used I think it's a good compromise in a lot of instances (but not for everything).
Peter said in response to one of my questions (thanks for the answer(s))
>But I'm guessing you want a jazzy name roolz-wise to go with the
>Talismans of the sorcerers or the fetishes of the Animists? In
>which case, use idols/graven images/relics to describe those
>items intended to be worshipped and enchanted [items]/holy
>[items] for those with general utility (such as a thunderstone).
Exactly what I was looking for. Relics for some reason makes me think of the Malkioni for some reason (must be the pseudo-Chrisitian connotation) but idols/graven images and enchanted items works for me.
Mikko Rintasaari had complimentd Tom McVey
>Adept : violating the digest rules
The rule is :
Using a message to praise someone is not a violation, just quoting the whole thing first. That explains why no one ever compliments my stuff, or wait maybe it's just because it's rubbish:-)
Oliver Bernuetz
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