Date   : Tue, 05 Nov 2002 13:29:40 +0100
From   : John Kortink <kortink@...>
Subject: Re: Which format do you want BBC manuals in? RTF/HTML

On Tue, 5 Nov 2002 11:50:43 -0000, Chris Richardson wrote:

>Hi
>
>Here are my thoughts on BBC Manual format:
>
>With any format I think there are limitations or problems.
>
>It depends what you are after.
>
>[...]
>
>That leaves me unable to decide really as long as I can read it with the
>tools I have. Ah, well, preferably not PDF though

Plain scanned images in e.g. TIFF format may be best and
most future proof (although they take more storage). Text
formats, including RTF, PDF, Word, etc. always introduce
specific restrictions in terms of layout, font types and
sizes, software that can be used to read them, etc.. A
scanned image is always a perfect representation of the
original material. Although it cannot be searched well
until OCR-ed (but then neither could the original) ...


John Kortink