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Subject:Re: Documents on the web From:"David M. Brown" <dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com> To:Techwr-L post <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 11 Oct 2000 17:46:05 -0700
"Cupps, Cathy D" wrote:
>
> ... advantages and disadvantages of...different formats
> such as HTML, HTML-Help, pdf, [and] others?
For virtually universal accessibility, you want HTML or PDF.
For printability, you want PDF.
For single-source print and hypertext, you want PDF.
The disadvantage of PDF is that you need Acrobat Reader to view it.
*** We chose PDF.
FrameMaker writes PDF easily, but it costs hundreds of dollars and the source files are less accessible to most people outside your doc group.
It's not *quite* as easy to create PDF from Word, but it's quite possible; and Word is already on nearly everyone's machine, making contributions and reviews much simpler.
*** We chose Word.
--David
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David M. Brown - Brown Inc.
dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com
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