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Re: MS Publisher exporting to PDF???

Subject: Re: MS Publisher exporting to PDF???
From: Sandra Charker <scharker -at- connectives -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 00:22:37 +1000

At 04:27 AM 2001-07-27, Emily Berk wrote:

Sandra:

Only the current month's newsletter (so won't take much space) will be available, for download as a pdf, from the group's website. The rest of the website will be implemented in standard HTML/PHP. But this way the newsletter will be easily printable for members and non-members alike (but the members will still also have it mailed to them monthly).

This project in general will be a lot of work and I am not looking to make more for myself. On the other hand, if I thought HTML were the way to go, I would have suggested it.

I treat volunteer work as seriously as paid work, especially since the benefit I get from work of this kind is that MY work as webmaster reaches potential sources of paid work. In this case, I believe that making these documents available in pdf is actually the best alternative.

Emily:

I hope you didn't think I was suggesting that you were somehow lazy or sloppy in agreeing to put the PDF on their website. That's not what I meant. Like you, I treat volunteer work seriously and recognise that it takes the same balancing act between resources, requirements, and wishes as paid work does.

My point about PDF on the Web was that it can't ensure that the power and non-textual message of a printed format is transferred to online. It sounded possible that your client didn't realise that, and didn't recognise that there are some serious disadvantages to using PDF for documents intended to be read over the Web.

You are not suggesting that liquid HTML would even approach pixelatim, are you? Cause if you know how to manage THAT, you ought to write a book about it and you'll be set for life.

I think online is too new and too rapidly evolving for pixelatimity to be desirable even if it were achievable. At this stage, IMO, the guidelines for effective online communication consist of some rules of thumb borrowed from print, some others borrowed from movies and animation, yet others from cognitive science and HCI studies, and a hazy idea that sound might be useful in some contexts; to put that into effect we have a wide and widening range of monitors, browsers, and user experience. Depends on your purpose and your audience (gee what a surprise :), but my preference is to give the users as much control as possible over what they look at, because I don't know how they're looking at it.

Guess I'll have to find another subject to write a book about eh?

All the best.

Sandra Charker


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