RE: Nielsen's Rating (of PDF)

Subject: RE: Nielsen's Rating (of PDF)
From: Darren Barefoot <Darren -dot- Barefoot -at- capeclear -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 14:04:07 +0100


Interesting points...can you suggest a scenario where it
would preferable to produce a PDF formatted for online
viewing as opposed to using HTML?

The best I can think of is if you were distributing PDF forms
over a network, and needed people to complete them online.
But even then, I don't know why you wouldn't use HTML with a
back-end of your choice. Another option, I suppose, would be
a document which you thought was mostly going to be read
online, but was maybe going to be printed? The
mathematically-inclined could devise a metric here--some
equation involving the relative readability of
online-formatted PDFs vs. HTML combined with the relative
likelihood that a reader was going to print out the document.
Too much math for Friday afternoon. Thanks. DB.

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Hart, Geoff [mailto:Geoff-H -at- MTL -dot- FERIC -dot- CA]
> > Sent: 22 June 2001 13:38
> > To: TECHWR-L
> > Subject: Nielsen's Rating (of PDF)
> >
> >
> > Andrew Plato reports: <<Dan Emory is back! After being
> > banished from just
> > about every tech writing board there is, he's back and
> > trashin' people just
> > like old times. This time its respected Sun Microsystems
> scientist and
> > usability expert Jacob Nielsen who had the unmitigated gall
> > to speak poorly
> > of an Adobe product. See:
> > http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20010610.html for
> > full text of his article. While the article may be a bit
> > harsh, it is also
> > right about a lot of things.>>
> >

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