[thelist] Online documentation

[Pearson, John]

<tip>We use adobe acrobat extensively for all of our documents and we archive the
html docs to pdf's as well.  The trick is to use an "http" reference so that the
HTTP server will "byte serve" only the initial index and then allow you to page
through the document at random.
If you give an ftp reference the user only gets to receive the whole file since
ftp servers do not byte serve.  For example try these alternative links to a
multi-megabyte pdf 
byte served: http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/pdf/international/0484(2001).pdf
file served: ftp://ftp.eia.doe.gov/pub/pdf/international/0484(2001).pdf

its the same file, we aliased the space for the two servers.
</tip>

-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Preston [mailto:razorwise at yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 10:58 AM
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: Re: [thelist] Online documentation



--- sfmalo <sfmalo at msn.com> wrote:
> If I have to go to the time and trouble to make the documentation look good
> in html and incorporate it into the client's site, there would be no need
> for a PDF file. Just had another thought. Can a Word .doc file be downloaded
> from an html page as an .exe file?


You can actually just put your catalog.doc file on your server with a hyperlink
to it and if
people click on it and have Word (pretty much the whole free world) then it will
automatically dl
your catalog and open it in Word.

I did it with a resume some years ago...and just checked it...still works. :)

Sincerely,


Sean Preston


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