<font style="font-family: times new roman,serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;">BRIAN? IS THAT YOU?</span><br>
You remember?? Lunacon last year? <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">HEHE</span>, Good times.<br>
anyways please <span style="font-style: italic;">"DO NO</span>T" 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.<br>
are U saying "Frontpage" is better than hte "<span style="font-style: italic;">PDF"?</span>? aslo how does <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">FILEPro</span> connect to <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">
Frontpa</span>ge? i don think you thaught this thru very much. are you sure "HTML" is <span style="text-decoration: underline; font-style: italic;">potable like PDF</span>?<br>
also u say PDF is for graphic designer: yes, thats ture cause i do graphic design on PDF.<br>
<br>
Kindy,<br>
HK Whacker<br>
</font><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/10/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian K. White</b> <<a href="mailto:brian@aljex.com">brian@aljex.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: "Harry K. Whacker" <<a href="mailto:harry.whacker@gmail.com">harry.whacker@gmail.com</a>><br>To: <<a href="mailto:filepro-list@lists.celestial.com">filepro-list@lists.celestial.com
</a>><br>Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 1:14 PM<br>Subject: Re: text to pdf to email<br><br>DEAR BILL:<br>the "PDF" stands for "Portable Document File". it's defenitly better for<br>E-mail and Internet cause is portable. If you don't use "PDF" you can be
<br>sure they see it? also "PDF" is always faster (hense the name "portable"!)<br>and. You can aslo get it from FREE from the Web. here is a man who will tell<br>you how: "PDF" on the Web. Also It's more secureity! and better reliable for
<br>E-mail because it's portable. also E-mail is not supposed to be text! you<br>can get also do picture and animation and "PDF"! i even think FILEPro<br>datatables are PDF?? so it practically standard<br>now.<
<a href="http://web.ask.com/web?q=Where+can+I+download+%22PDF%22+on+the+Web%3F&qsrc=0&o=0">http://web.ask.com/web?q=Where+can+I+download+%22PDF%22+on+the+Web%3F&qsrc=0&o=0</a>><br><br>Kindly,<<a href="http://web.ask.com/web?q=Where+can+I+download+%22PDF%22+on+the+Web%3F&qsrc=0&o=0">
http://web.ask.com/web?q=Where+can+I+download+%22PDF%22+on+the+Web%3F&qsrc=0&o=0</a>><br>HK<br>Whacker<<a href="http://web.ask.com/web?q=Where+can+I+download+%22PDF%22+on+the+Web%3F&qsrc=0&o=0">http://web.ask.com/web?q=Where+can+I+download+%22PDF%22+on+the+Web%3F&qsrc=0&o=0
</a>><br><br>--------<br><br>Like I tell my customers, "I'll send you 100 pdf attachement emails, and 100<br>plain text or lightweight html emails, and after that you tell me which ones<br>you want to get all day every day.
<br>I garantee you'll want to pull your hair out by the 10th pdf email.<br><br>It is absolutely the opposite of faster and more convenient. All it's good<br>for is for when it really matters that the recipient see _exactly_ the same
<br>thing you see, right down to the style of font and where wrapping occurs<br>etc... IE: graphic designers handling artwork and pre-press layouts etc...,<br>special "preprinted" official forms that must be filled in and printed and
<br>they must be exactly like a xerox of the original form, and static published<br>documents like manuals & books where a pdf takes the place of a printed<br>book.<br><br>We _want_ invoices and such to be pretty but really, the information is
<br>worth more than the looks.<br>The smart thing is a compromise where you send things like invoices with<br>html, which is designed to re-fit itself as best as possible into the users<br>particular display and to be efficient in terms of file size.
<br>Rather than embedding a full copy in the document of all fonts that are used<br>in the document, html makes a sort of "suggestion" and whatever font the<br>user has that is closest is used, and if the recipient is going blind and
<br>has his display set at very low resolution with very large font sizes, the<br>html will wrap lines as necessary while still maintaining the overall<br>structure of the document, _if_ the html was written sanely.<br><br>
People who handle a lot of emails every day can not have their procedure<br>slowed down by having to click on attachments and wait for acrobat to open<br>up on every one when plain text or html are immediately visible and they
<br>don't even have to "open up" they are right there in the preview pane<br>already.<br><br>This is not a subjective personal prefference issue either. Yes, you can<br>personally prefer pdfs, just like you can personally prefer the space
<br>shuttle instead of a littel rice-burner car. It doesn't change the fact that<br>the rice-burner is in fact far more efficient for going to the grocery<br>store. Slower is slower and less efficient is less efficient and it's an
<br>indisputable measurable fact that using pdfs for most email is slower and<br>less efficient, and at *both* the client and the server.<br>It's popularity and the desire to use it for everything arises out of<br>ignorance basically.
<br><br>Brian K. White -- <a href="mailto:brian@aljex.com">brian@aljex.com</a> -- <a href="http://www.aljex.com/bkw/">http://www.aljex.com/bkw/</a><br>+++++[>+++[>+++++>+++++++<<-]<-]>>+.>.+++++.+++++++.-.[>+<---]>++.
<br>filePro BBx Linux SCO Prosper/FACTS AutoCAD #callahans Satriani<br><br><br>On 5/10/05, Bill Campbell <<a href="mailto:bill@celestial.com">bill@celestial.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> On Mon, May 09, 2005, Tony Freehauf wrote:
<br>> >hi experts<br>> >any one care to suggest a way to move a text output to pdf in linux?<br>> >i know this is not filepro but i plan on doing the text to pdf to email<br>> >from filepro.<br>>
<br>> Why would anybody want to change text to pdf for e-mail inclusion<br>> since e-mail is supposed to be text???<br>><br>> Bill<br>> --<br>> INTERNET: <a href="mailto:bill@Celestial.COM">bill@Celestial.COM
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