[R-390] Y2K Reprinting

[Barry Hauser]

Hi Jim & Gang:

I don't know why this thread continues.

Not to worry, the first Y2K manual was pdf, the second was pdf and the 
third will be pdf. 

There was some discussion about what format to use for the text that is 
to be brought into the pdf file -- primarily whether it should be Word 
format or rtf.  That's a procedural detail. 

If the text does not render properly using Word files, then it's simply 
a matter of doing a "save-as" and clicking on "rtf" in the dropdown 
menu, checking the layout of the resulting rtf file, and then dropping 
that into the pdf document. All the text has been 
done/revised/reformatted by Perrier.  I have been in touch with him and 
will be assisting with bringing it to final.  He has Adobe Acrobat 5.0 
and will be using that to generate the distribution file(s). 

Don't know at this point if we'll need any additional help.

Barry



Jim Shorney wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 07:38:20 -0400, Bob Camp wrote:
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>> Like it or not MS Word is a pretty common format. It's what pretty  
>> much everybody has on their desktop in one form or another.  Keeping  
>> one version in something like that makes sense.
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> I've got four "desktops" in this room that see regular use, and not one of
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>> To me the question is - what else? MS Word is headed off to XML  
>> format. Having the manual in a HTML like format probably makes sense.  
>> That would be doubly true for putting the manual up for online browsing.
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> HTML/XML still has too many "warts".  PDF is a mature format, and a well-done
> PDF document looks *very* good.  
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