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I just started using it a few days ago. It's free. It installs a menu item in Windows apps that lets you send the currently open document, web page, whatever, as a self-extracting executable. Very quick and easy. If you are sending to a cross-platform audience, then you send a .hot file instead of a .exe file; but that means everyone you are circulating to has to download and install the free viewer (differs by platform, obviously).
I'm a confirmed Acrobat user, but I do like HotSend and have gotten positive feedback on it.
Dick
From: blibys <blibys -at- gateway -dot- net>
To: TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Monday, November 08, 1999 8:15 PM
Subject: Document Viewer Application Other than Acrobat
>Hello everyone. I need a little help.
>
>I work for a company that directly competes with an Adobe product.
>Therefore, we do not want to promote Adobe by using Acrobat, but we do want
>to make our documentation available in an application like Acrobat.
>
>Can anyone suggest a comparable document viewer to Acrobat?
