From:	Adam J adamj@*********.html.com
Subject:	The Shadowrun Supplemental #10
Date:	Sun, 04 Jul 1999 11:21:46 -0600

At 11:38 7/4/99 -0500, Patrick Goodman wrote:
>> Sorry Patrick, but it doesn't look like there's going to be a
>> Word version.
>
>That's unfortunate, since Acrobat is crap for reading things on the screen

Odd. I don't seem to have a problem. Maximize Acrobat. Hit "View -> Fit in
Window". And as I've said, both on my page and in my posting to the list, a
HTML version will be out this week, for on screen viewing.

>and it constantly locks up at around page 4.

In this particular file? Haven't noticed a problem with it or any other PDF
file I've read before. I have -never- had Acrobat Reader, versions 2
through 4, crash on me. Ever.

If I get more reports of this, I'll look into it, but since page 4 is plain
text, with one line graphic, and nothing else, I have very little reason to
believe that it is in any way corrupted or would cause the reader to crash.

> And I'm not certain what he
>means by Word being a cranky program, since I've never had a problem with
>it.

Word cannot do a decent number of the things that Pagemaker can do, not
without a good deal of kludging around. It's also relatively crash-prone,
doesn't use Type1 fonts near as well as Pagemaker, and has a bunch of minor
issues that add up. After doing 9 issues with Word, and one issue with
Pagemaker, I definitely think that Pagemaker is the superior tool for the job.

I'll look into a Pagemaker -> Word/RTF filter, but I'm not promising
anything. I spend quite enough time on the magazine already, and I
obviously put far too much effort into trying to please -everyone-.

And yeah, if this comes off as a bit frustrated and upset, I am.

Adam