On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:15 PM, Joseph L. Casale <[email protected]> wrote: >> PDF itself isn't a bad format. > > Except when it comes to editing the fsck'in things:)
That's a feature. Seriously. PDF was envisioned to be electronic paper. You don't edit electronic paper any more than you edit physical paper. PDF was supposed to be the last step in an electronic publishing chain. Adobe's corrupted it considerably since then, of course. > I have yet to encounter a platform agnostic format that was > genuinely a pleasure to work with aside from ascii, but > that format rather lacks a bit in presentation:) HTML with CSS can do some neat things. The syntax isn't great, but it isn't horrible. (TeX, I'm looking at you.) I've written white papers in HTML using a plain text editor before; it wasn't bad. You won't get uniform presentation everywhere, though. (Again, a feature. A very cool one at times. Not so much other times.) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
