RE: HTML or PDF?

["Goldstein, Dan" <DGoldstein -at- DeusTech -dot- com>]

So the "free" deliverable is just a PDF printed from Word? In that case, you
get what you pay for (unfortunately, so will your users). TANSTAFOH, There
Ain't No Such Thing As Free Online Help.

-- Dan Goldstein (with apologies to Heinlein)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erika Yanovich
> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 4:39 AM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: RE: HTML or PDF?
> 
> Cass,
> The reason they are cheaper is:
> 1. they take less time to produce
> 2. The price of the upgrade license is lower.
> While the above points are arguable, I've never encountered a 
> contractor who actually charges money for delivering PDFs and 
> a contractor who does not charge for delivering webhelp (or 
> any other format of help), when the source is another format 
> (in my case Word).

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