Re: Oracle 8 *Top 10 wishlist*

From: Roberto Alsina <ralsina_at_ultra7.unl.edu.ar>
Date: 1997/04/07
Message-ID: <slrn5kicpk.1cq.ralsina@ultra7.unl.edu.ar>#1/1

In article <5ia4a1$9fh_at_Jupiter.SPARCO.Com>, Mubashir Cheema wrote:
>lsantos_at_pobox.com (Luis Santos) writes:
>
>>aak2_at_Ra.MsState.Edu (Atif Ahmad Khan) wrote:

>> I prefer in .PDF. Best to view and distribute...
>
>How do you think people using lynx would read it ?

Downloading it and passing it through ghostscript, for example.

>
>Not everybody has a GUI browser that supports PDF available to them
>all the time. Also you didn't explain why PDF viewers are better than
>html browsers ?

PDF is better if you need, for example, precise page layout, certain fonts... they are really quite different things.

>
>Mubashir Cheema
>cheema_at_sparco.com

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