Date   : Tue, 05 Nov 2002 16:11:52 -0000
From   : "Colin" <cwhill@...>
Subject: Re: Which format do you want BBC manuals in? RTF/HTML

There are two questions here. One from the writer and one from the reader.
To write PDF you need to spend money on the software but the reader is free.
That means that it gets read and is available to all but it costs a lot to
buy the writer. Any form of word processor document stands a good chance of
being totally unreadable by a different program (I regularly get 200+ pages
in WordPad for a 10 line message from friends - we use txt only now!).
Unless the cost is too prohibited I would go for PDF.
The cheapest option is perhaps just a text format which means that it can be
read by everyone. If there are any diagrams/pictures required they could be
shown (and downloaded) off a web page (too much to put it all on a web page
I think). I often use this method with record album covers. The text from
the back is available as text but the covers are scanned and put up on a
(non-publicised) web page. Also handy for game inserts etc - and they are in
colour.
Please keep us informed as half the pages are missing from mine!
Colin Hill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Philip Blundell" <pb@...>
To: "Chris Richardson" <chris@...>
Cc: "BBC Mailing List" <bbc-micro@...>
Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 12:37 PM
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Which format do you want BBC manuals in? RTF/HTML


> On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 11:50, Chris Richardson wrote:
> > PDF seems to be favourite in this discussion so far but that is a format
> > that I have always avoided as it restricts you to one bit of software.
>
> PDF is no longer just Adobe Acrobat, if that's what you mean.  There are
> many programs that can read PDF files these days.
>
> p.
>
>