RE: PDF vs. HTML

["Jeanne A. E. DeVoto" <jaed -at- jaedworks -dot- com>]

At 7:52 AM -0700 6/15/2001, Christensen, Kent wrote:
>The real point of the distinction is the notion of trying to kill two birds
>with one stone by fantasizing that one can make a presentation for computer
>screen viewing that serves equally well as printed matter.  In the most
>frequently occurring cases of use of pdf on the Web, it's vice versa, of
>course.  There is just no reason other than laziness to use pdf for Web
>pages and every reason to use it for the "printer friendly version."

Except that on most web sites, the "printer friendly version" is actually
the "reader friendly version", presented in a column wide enough for more
than a couple of words to fit, without winkinblinkin stuff everywhere, and
so on. I have once or twice accidentally gotten a PDF file when trying to
find the reader-friendly version of a web page, and have recoiled in
horror. ;-)

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