Subject: Re: FAQ and Tool Page

From: [email-masked] (Clay Spencer)
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 22:42:43 -0400

We appreciate the response with offers to help with FAQ and Tool Page.
Matt Balent, Rev. Mike Martin, Franklyn Garland and Mike Linn have offered
to help.
George is working on some of the details and we will get back to you next
week after he gets the next Hammer's Blow ready to go to the printers.

Gene (and Mike Martin) had some questions about pdf vs. jpeg, gif and html.

>I have questions about the reader as well.
>I don't understand why it would be better for an archive than web pages with
>jpeg grayscales & color shots and gif b&w drawings. In that these are
>compact files that transmit info rapidly. And html text files move quite
>quickly as well.

He makes a good point that the reader is free but we have to buy a program
to make the pdf files. These are some of the things we will try to work out
before we get started.

Thanks for the offers to help and the interest.
Clay

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From: Muralynd <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 08:18:42 -0500

> >jpeg grayscales & color shots and gif b&w drawings. In that these are

 To answer Gene, it's better because if I put something up that looks like A 
but someone has their browser set to make A look like B they don't get to see 
what *I* put up. Acrobat looks the same on ALL platforms (That it runs on)
 Netscape on the Mac and Windows has a few important differences in how they 
handle certain tags, some files (like a jpeg) and if you get into Mosaic or 
MicroSloth Internet Explod..er.. Implod... er.. Explorer.. it's even more 
different.

> >compact files that transmit info rapidly. And html text files move quite

 Okay, I downloaded the acrobat reader and thence started the search for PDF 
files... I like it.. sort of ;)

 Other than being just ONE more piece of software to have opened on my 
desktop, other than being a little bloated (2.5 Megs drive space, not really 
that bad) and other then taking so *(#^$*)&#$ long to download, it's got 
decent features.

> to make the pdf files. These are some of the things we will try to work out

 HTML is free (Unless you pay someone to write it) as are gifs and jpegs.. 
you CAN get decent quality out of them..  I am mostly convinced that acrobat 
isn't a `bad thing' (tm) but my one remaining reservation deals with those of 
use that are still dialing up with an old Amiga, an old PDP (Hey.. *I* have 
one! doesn't everyone? <-- it's a mini-mainframe for the uninitiated) or even 
an old 8088 IBM original `Blue Lightning' that runs about 4 MHz.

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