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Subject:Re: HTML vs. Adobe Acrobat From:Benjamin Milstead <guilden -at- IQUEST -dot- NET> Date:Fri, 22 Mar 1996 12:58:00 EST
>That doesn't make much sense. It's rather like saying you've lost audience
>because you've put your graphics in a format that can only be read by a
>helper application.
Yes, this is precisely my point.
Cheers,
Ben Milstead
>>However, you've lost some extensibility and audience by not
>>converting to HTML. To what extent you've lost it depends upon the
>>content and purpose of your documents, but the fact remains that
>>far more Web users use Netscape than they do Acrobat Reader.
