RE: What .pdf does work well for - was: Re: Nielsen frags PDF...

[Michael West <mbwest -at- bigpond -dot- net -dot- au>]

> I'm not trying to say that .pdf documentation is the answer in all cases...
> there are people out there who like to look at nicely bound doc sets in
> their overly full, teetering doc cabinets. 

I don't think anyone disagrees that *.pdf often makes
an effective substitute for shipping bound books. The 
issue seems to be about whether most users prefer 
"typical"  HTML pages to "typical" PDF pages *online*.
PDF is a format that was originally based on a printed-page
model, and it still retains that orientation in most
of its real-life, plain-vanilla implementations. Try dragging 
the vertical scrollbar on a PDF, for example.
-- 
Mike West
Melbourne, Australia


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