Subject: Re: HOWTO

[jim tate]

Janina Sajka wrote:

>Rudi Chiarito writes:
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>>On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 03:28:37PM -0400, Will Backman wrote:
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>>>I would argue, though, that PDF is best for print and poor for screens. 
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>>What do you mean, "poor for screens"? It has support for Powerpoint-like
>>fades! [1] What more do you need? :]
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>Much, much more.
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>Speaking of myself, I need to rerender in an alternative format such as braille or synthetic speech because I'm not going to read anything on a screen.
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>As I recall the original post in this thread, that user couldn't deal with the size of chars in the LDP files. This is a more prevalent need than my need--and will increase in prevalence as our population ages.
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>Other people need to "flip polarity," to see white text on a dark background. Other people need to control foreground/background color combinations (color blindness), etc., etc., etc.
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>So, you may not need more, but we weren't talking about one person, right?
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>>Rudi
>>[1] Ok, and screen-oriented features like hyperlinks, bookmarks and
>>interactive forms, too.
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When I made this HOWTO orignally , Ididn't realize it would lead a big 
knock down
drag out battle over PDF, but continue on , you guys are throwing out a 
lot of good info.

Jim Tate