- From: Kurt Foss <kfoss@murrow.journalism.wisc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 09:51:51 -0600
- To: kitblake@gig.nl (kitblake), www-html@www10.w3.org
At 4:05 PM 6/23/95, kitblake wrote: >The Problem is Acrobat generates very large files, especially with pictures. What do you consider "very large?" A forthcoming Netscape Navigator will allow one to download separate pages from a pdf file rather than the entire file, if a user wants only a portion. Too many sites today fail to break up their pdf docs so folks can snag smaller portions if they so choose, in addition to the full doc. >Having some control mechanism to organize text in columns makes for better >communication. A caption can be under a picture. Or next to it. Two or >three important items can share the header space. Things to be skimmed, as >in a newspaper, can be in narrow columns. Or linked footnotes can be on a >wide margin. See above. These are complementary tools, seems to me, each with particular strengths and weaknesses. ~ Kurt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~my vitals~~~~~~~~> KURT FOSS * U_of Wisconsin-Madison * School of Journalism and Mass Comm. 5020 Vilas, Communication Hall * 821 University Avenue * Madison, WI 53706 Email: kfoss@murrow.journalism.wisc.edu * kfoss@itis.com * CIS: 70541,1040 Phone: Voice 608-263-3391 * FAX 608-262-1361 * Home 608-271-1210 Technology Editor, NPPA Electronic Photojournalism Workshop EPW7 Sept. 8-16 WWW1: ONline WISCONSIN> http://www.journalism.wisc.edu/olw-home WWW2: NPPA> http://sunsite.unc.edu/nppa ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~-30-~~~~~~~~~~~~
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