Posted by axel on 10/06/89 11:42

In uk.net.web.authoring Simon Brooke <simon@jasmine.org.uk> wrote:
> in message <4puke3-i9t.ln1@ophelia.g5n.co.uk>, Toby Inkster
> ('usenet200603@tobyinkster.co.uk') wrote:

>> Martin Underwood wrote:

>>> I think the bigger issue with HTML and browser design is that it only
>>> supplies *hints* and *suggestions* as to the formatting, rather than
>>> making all browsers display a page with identical formatting, as PDF
>>> does.

>> If you want PDF, then *use* PDF.

> /No-one/ wants PDF. /Ever/. There is never any good reason for using it.

I do. There are many documents I prefer to download as PDF files
and save and read at my leisure. Most of these being technical
documents which correspond to to their printed equivalent.

Or forms which need to be printed and filled out.

But then I could just as well use FTP to receive them except the
web allows suitable indices and means to find these documents.

Axel

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