From:	Adam J adamj@*********.html.com
Subject:	The Shadowrun Supplemental #10
Date:	Mon, 05 Jul 1999 07:05:21 -0600

At 17:57 7/4/99 -0700, Various People wrote:

(This is a general reply to everything I felt worth replying to, so as to
reduce the number of posts on this subject. Double quoted text is mine.)

>I would love to have an alternative to Adobe. Ugh.

And if there was an alternative to the PDF format (Which is not "Adobe",
Adobe is the company that wrote the format, and the company that wrote the
best reader for it, although there are others), which provides exact layout
across multiple platforms (Within several hours of TSS's release, I had
reports from users of Windows, Mac, Solaris, Linux, etc), I would look into
using it.

Until then, people who don't want to read the PDF file can read the HTML
version, which is perfectly readable online or offline (File --> Save As),
and this issue I'll package it all as a nice little .zip file so you can
download the whole issue that way, if you like.

>> Odd. I don't seem to have a problem. Maximize Acrobat. Hit "View
>> -> Fit in Window".
>
>And you can read this? It makes the print nearly microscopic on my system.
>The text is legible if I set it fit the page width, but there's a shitload
>of scrolling that has to be done that I don't have to do in Word with RTF.

Yes, I can read it. Well enough to skim something and decide if I need to
print the contents, or just to find something quickly. Another thing to
keep in mind - I optimized this file for printing, one of the factors is
the double column layout. It would require scrolling up and down in any
format to read onscreen.

>-K (who once again hears the sounds of incompatibility ringing across the
>internet)

Quick look at the list of operating systems that have copies of Adobe
Acrobat Reader:
Mac, Power Mac, Win 3.1/95/NT/98, SunOS, Solaris, HP-UX, SGI, IRIX, IBM,
AIX, Digital UNIX, Linux, OS/2 Warp

Hardly incompatible. Incompatible with some people, but compatible with the
vast majority of computers, for free.

Adam
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