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Re: Document Viewer Application Other than Acrobat
Subject:Re: Document Viewer Application Other than Acrobat From:"Skip Mendler" <wmendler -at- cornetltd -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 10 Nov 1999 09:50:57 -0500
Well, there *used* to be this thing called Common Ground...
But in more recent news, the 600-pound gorilla has entered the market. The
following story has caused a bit of a buzz in the document delivery
community:
I don't know that "Microsoft Reader" actually exists yet...
//skip
WS (Skip) Mendler, wmendler -at- cornetltd -dot- com
-----Original Message-----
From: Dick Margulis <margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net>
To: TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Cc: blibys -at- gateway -dot- net <blibys -at- gateway -dot- net>
Date: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 11:49 AM
Subject: Re: Document Viewer Application Other than Acrobat
>Have you considered HotSend eFax? Check it out at http://www.hotsend.com.
>
>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 a
>udience, 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.
>