Posted by if on 10/06/50 11:42

"Martin Underwood" <news@isp.com> wrote in
news:44174d66$0$3609$ed2e19e4@ptn-nntp-reader04.plus.net:

> 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. It would be so much easier as the designer of a site if you
> could be confident that everyone would see the same view of the page
> without the line breaks and table column widths being variable under
> user control.


The problem with this suggestion is that Acrobat is probably one of the
worst methods for displaying documents on-screen ever devised. Its complete
inflexibility has me cursing almost every time I have open a PDF document.


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