PDF is also useful for scanned documents. It is a quick way to get hardcopy
on line, if you can tolerate largish files. Certainly better than faxing
them.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Taylor [SMTP:
> Sent: Tuesday, 1 August 2000 15:32
> Cc: Birding-Oz
> Subject: Re: [BIRDING-AUS] Bird Route Booklets
>
> wrote:
> >
> > Tim Hyde <> asked about making the various bird route
> > pamphlets available online. He suggested the birding-aus site.
> [snip]
> > What format would people prefer them to be in? PDF, RTF or MS Word? I
> am
> > thinking about PDF as this seems to be more universal, but I don't have
> the
> > ability to create this format, but hopefully Birds Australia will be
> able
> > to provide them.
>
> Not MS Word! Plain text would be great, but if you want to embed
> graphics then HTML would be best. Both formats are as universal
> and you can get and widely used so tools to read and write files
> are also widely, and often freely, available.
>
> PDF is great if you want to publish a final, printer-ready version
> of a document, but not so good if you plan to make changes (and it
> costs money to buy the tools to produce PDF files...)
>
>
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