text to pdf to email

Wed May 11 13:18:25 PDT 2005

BRIAN? IS THAT YOU?
You remember?? Lunacon last year? HEHE, Good times.
anyways please "DO NOT" send me 100 PDF format files! i don think my 
Internet company will be to happy about that but I read you post and and don 
realy understand what U mean and.
are U saying "Frontpage" is better than hte "PDF"?? aslo how does
FILEProconnect to
Frontpage? i don think you thaught this thru very much. are you sure "HTML" 
is potable like PDF?
also u say PDF is for graphic designer: yes, thats ture cause i do graphic 
design on PDF.

Kindy,
HK Whacker

On 5/10/05, Brian K. White <brian at aljex.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Harry K. Whacker" <harry.whacker at gmail.com>
> To: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 1:14 PM
> Subject: Re: text to pdf to email
> 
> DEAR BILL:
> the "PDF" stands for "Portable Document File". it's defenitly better for
> E-mail and Internet cause is portable. If you don't use "PDF" you can be
> sure they see it? also "PDF" is always faster (hense the name "portable"!)
> and. You can aslo get it from FREE from the Web. here is a man who will 
> tell
> you how: "PDF" on the Web. Also It's more secureity! and better reliable 
> for
> E-mail because it's portable. also E-mail is not supposed to be text! you
> can get also do picture and animation and "PDF"! i even think FILEPro
> datatables are PDF?? so it practically standard
> now.<
> http://web.ask.com/web?q=Where+can+I+download+%22PDF%22+on+the+Web%3F&qsrc=0&o=0
> >
> 
> Kindly,<
> http://web.ask.com/web?q=Where+can+I+download+%22PDF%22+on+the+Web%3F&qsrc=0&o=0
> >
> HK
> Whacker<
> http://web.ask.com/web?q=Where+can+I+download+%22PDF%22+on+the+Web%3F&qsrc=0&o=0
> >
> 
> --------
> 
> Like I tell my customers, "I'll send you 100 pdf attachement emails, and 
> 100
> plain text or lightweight html emails, and after that you tell me which 
> ones
> you want to get all day every day.
> I garantee you'll want to pull your hair out by the 10th pdf email.
> 
> It is absolutely the opposite of faster and more convenient. All it's good
> for is for when it really matters that the recipient see _exactly_ the 
> same
> thing you see, right down to the style of font and where wrapping occurs
> etc... IE: graphic designers handling artwork and pre-press layouts 
> etc...,
> special "preprinted" official forms that must be filled in and printed and
> they must be exactly like a xerox of the original form, and static 
> published
> documents like manuals & books where a pdf takes the place of a printed
> book.
> 
> We _want_ invoices and such to be pretty but really, the information is
> worth more than the looks.
> The smart thing is a compromise where you send things like invoices with
> html, which is designed to re-fit itself as best as possible into the 
> users
> particular display and to be efficient in terms of file size.
> Rather than embedding a full copy in the document of all fonts that are 
> used
> in the document, html makes a sort of "suggestion" and whatever font the
> user has that is closest is used, and if the recipient is going blind and
> has his display set at very low resolution with very large font sizes, the
> html will wrap lines as necessary while still maintaining the overall
> structure of the document, _if_ the html was written sanely.
> 
> People who handle a lot of emails every day can not have their procedure
> slowed down by having to click on attachments and wait for acrobat to open
> up on every one when plain text or html are immediately visible and they
> don't even have to "open up" they are right there in the preview pane
> already.
> 
> This is not a subjective personal prefference issue either. Yes, you can
> personally prefer pdfs, just like you can personally prefer the space
> shuttle instead of a littel rice-burner car. It doesn't change the fact 
> that
> the rice-burner is in fact far more efficient for going to the grocery
> store. Slower is slower and less efficient is less efficient and it's an
> indisputable measurable fact that using pdfs for most email is slower and
> less efficient, and at *both* the client and the server.
> It's popularity and the desire to use it for everything arises out of
> ignorance basically.
> 
> Brian K. White -- brian at aljex.com -- http://www.aljex.com/bkw/
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> 
> On 5/10/05, Bill Campbell <bill at celestial.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, May 09, 2005, Tony Freehauf wrote:
> > >hi experts
> > >any one care to suggest a way to move a text output to pdf in linux?
> > >i know this is not filepro but i plan on doing the text to pdf to email
> > >from filepro.
> >
> > Why would anybody want to change text to pdf for e-mail inclusion
> > since e-mail is supposed to be text???
> >
> > Bill
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