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Subject:Re: Documentation on the WWW From:David Locke <locke -at- SUGAR-LAND -dot- ANADRILL -dot- SLB -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 2 Oct 1996 16:51:23 +0000
At 05:12 PM 10/2/96 EDT, you wrote:
>>For example, would it make sense to convert support
>>documentation to HTML and leave users documentation in .PDF format?
IMHO if you want your customers to be able to access your customer suport
documentation on the web using search tools, then it must be in HTML format.
But if it isn't going to be searched and you can provide an Acrobat reader
leave it in .PDF.
David
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