Date   : Mon, 04 Nov 2002 18:42:18 GMT
From   : pete@... (Pete Turnbull)
Subject: Re: Which format do you want BBC manuals in? RTF/HTML

On Nov 4, 14:38, Paul Wheatley wrote:

> Have you considered Latex? Thats a better archival format than PDF as you
can
> easily move it to other formats (including PDF to view it if required).
With
> PDF, you're a little more tied in.

That wouldn't be my first choice, as it's a pain to obtain all the software
and fonts and set them up, and PDF exists for more platforms than LaTeX
does.  PDF is also better at handling graphics, more likely to deal
correctly with fonts (unless you go to a lot of trouble to get decent LaTeX
fonts), is inherently compressed and therfore more space efficient, and
usually easier to view.

> Having said that, PDF seems to be a popular archival format at the
moment.
> Personally I'm not exactly sure why tho...

Because more users are likely to have decent tools/viewers to deal with it
than most other things (except plain text or possibly HTML).


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Pete                                           Peter Turnbull
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