Re: PDF documentation and client delivery

[Tom Herme <hermet -at- DNINEVADA -dot- COM>]

Kees de Bondt wrote:

> On 14-07-1998 04:23 Becky Roberts wrote in part:
>
> >
> >1.  If you deliver Acrobat files to clients, how do you ensure that the
> >client has the reader loaded so that they can open the files?
> >
> >2.  Please assure me that there are other folks out there who do this
> >kind of delivery.  Management is now looking at me and questioning why I
> >think PDF is such a good idea.
> >
>
> I am not as familiar with Windows as with Macintosh systems, but are
> documents not automatically connected to the application which created
> them?
> On clicking a PDF-document in a Macintosh environment, the Reader will be
> looked up which opens the document you want to read.
>
> Always accompany the documents with the latest version of Acrobat Reader
> you can download from the Internet any time
> (www.adobe.com/supportservice/custsupport/LIBRARY/acrwin.htm).
> Older readers can't open documents made up by the latest Acrobat versions.

If you documentation includes many screen captures, I would suggest using the
Reader version 3.0--not 3.01. Version 3.01 contains some bug that causes
graphics to appear blurry. I fought this problem for two weeks before finding
someone at Adobe who admitted that this problem exists. The download site for
Reader versions 3.0 is:http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/alternate2.html

Hope this helps.

Tom

>
>
> My 2 cents...
>
> Kees de Bondt
>
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