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Bird Route Booklets

To: Birding-Oz <>
Subject: Bird Route Booklets
From: "Billinghurst, David (CRTS)" <>
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 23:28:36 -0000
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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