On 3/9/2011 10:18 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
They're text. With minor formatting. That alone makes html better. Html is lousy for a lot of things, but formatted text is the one thing it's always been perfectly good at. And frankly I think I'd *rather* go with pretty much any word processing format if the only other option was pdf.
I used to use HTML for presentations. Frankly, it was terrible. The text was rendered badly, especially when blown up on a screen. I could never get it to look right. I couldn't email the presentation to anyone without sending a wad of other files along with it.
I switched to pdf presentations, and they worked great and looked great. The pdf viewers would render text that looked great blown up. The pdf was all in one file, meaning I could email it to someone and they could look at it directly from their mail program. I would bring backups on a thumb drive so in case my laptop was busted/stolen by the TSA, I could run my presentation on anyone's computer.
I do not understand why HTML engines do such an ugly job rendering text, while PDF's on the same machine do a great job. This is true on Windows as well as Ubuntu.
