Hi Mary and all, We've been using PDF on our website since 2002 to deliver all press releases; a current example is at http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/exhb/press.html . This supplanted mailing printed releases with 8x10s; some hard-copy releases still go out, but they (and email notices) refer users to the PDF on the Web for images.
In this case, PDF works nicely for integrated delivery of images and text with embedded fonts for consistent display, in a single-file, downloadable format as desired by many of our press contacts. PDF permissions make it easy to enable full content export while affording modest protection against changing the PDF itself--not that anyone would bother hacking a press release, but this may help prevent inadvertent alteration or other glitches as the file is passed along. Rob PS: current workflow uses Photoshop for image preparation, Word for incoming text, FrameMaker (!) for assembly, and Distiller and Acrobat for PDF prep. At 1:16 PM -0800 2/22/07, you wrote: >I am interesting in knowing if anyone out there is using pdf and/or pdf-A >to delivery digital content to web visitors, or for any other application. > >Feel free to respond on or off list. > >Thanks. > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >Mary W. Elings >Archivist for Digital Collections >The Bancroft Library >University of California, Berkeley > >MCN Standards SIG Chair -- ______________________________________________ Rob Lancefield (rlancefield [at] wesleyan.edu) Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA 860.685.2965 Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network
