2009/3/17 Sascha Brossmann | brsma : designificance <0...@brsma.de>
>
> If you think, that THIS was a real problem, the concerning
> person/company urgently needs a competent lawyer before deciding
> anything further on IxD. ;-)
>
Trust me, they have!
I'm really checking the technical options out
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:12, Francis Norton wrote:
> "Well, your honour, I've no idea how it happened, but using *my* stylesheets
> the paragraph about having to pay a pound of flesh for each day the loan was
> overdue was displayed in light grey on dirty white, using these funny
> wingdings cha
2009/3/17 James Page
> >
> > Anybody know a better way of them to the user with controlled content
> and
> > format?
> >
> FlashPaper 2 document, the user will need Flash. Flash seams to have higher
> penetration than "Acrobat".
>
> Have a look at http://www.adobe.com/products/flashpaper/
>
> An
2009/3/17 Sascha Brossmann | brsma : designificance <0...@brsma.de>
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 08:16, Francis Norton
> wrote:
> > We often have to provide the Terms and Conditions of financial products
> as a
> > PDF for compliance. Anybody know a better way of them to the user with
> > controlled
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 09:20, James Page wrote:
> "of those 9,199 visitors, and only 2,572 had "Acrobat", 9,856 had
>> Javascript, 8,135 had Flash
>
>
> Sorry slip of finger. It was 8,856 had Javascript.
>
> But it would be interesting to see if others have similar low numbers for
> Reader. On o
>
> Anybody know a better way of them to the user with controlled content and
> format?
>
FlashPaper 2 document, the user will need Flash. Flash seams to have higher
penetration than "Acrobat".
Have a look at http://www.adobe.com/products/flashpaper/
And also http://issuu.com/
I have no idea wh
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 08:16, Francis Norton wrote:
> We often have to provide the Terms and Conditions of financial products as a
> PDF for compliance. Anybody know a better way of them to the user with
> controlled content and format?
What degree of control do you need beyond what's offered by
"Out of those 9,199 visitors, ...9,856 had Javascript" ??
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We often have to provide the Terms and Conditions of financial products as a
PDF for compliance. Anybody know a better way of them to the user with
controlled content and format?
2009/3/16 Sascha Brossmann | brsma : designificance <0...@brsma.de>
>
> First question that comes to my mind: is the P
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 12:52 PM, James Page wrote:
> There where 9,199 visitors, and only 2,572 had "Acrobat". I sure if the
> target audience was academic then the numbers for "Acrobat" would allot
> higher.
I'm not sure *I* have "Acrobat". I try to purge it from my system at
every opportunity
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:10, Jamie Bresner wrote:
> What should I take into account when considering adding "Get Adobe
> Acrobat" next to a PDF link on a web page. Is this necessary?
First question that comes to my mind: is the PDF download itself
really THIS necessary, actually? If the content
> Another problem with relying on Javascript is of course that some
> users may have it disabled for whatever reason
>
To help this discussion along, here are some more stats.
Out of those 9,199 visitors, and only 2,572 had "Acrobat", 9,856 had
Javascript, 8,135 had Flash. 300 came from browsers t
Another problem with relying on Javascript is of course that some
users may have it disabled for whatever reason (their choice of user
agent, paranoid IT departments, whatever). To be honest I don't think
this group of users is that high these days, but it's important enough
to consider some altern
There might be a bit of a problem with this approach. The browser can only
detect whether the user has a reader configured to load as a plugin. That
rules out users in firms with paranoid IT departments, which sometimes
install reader as a stand-alone for security purposes, and also users who
have
I love the built-in viewer in Google Docs. I wonder if there's an API for
calling that an viewing the doc directly in the web page without needing the
reader software/plug-in installed? That'd be the easiest solution from the
user's standpoint.
·Dave
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>So what to do?
A little bit of javascript magic. Use javascript to test if the user has a
pdf reader, if not show them the link to download it.
The issue seams to be people don't know what "Acrobat" is and then combine
the web stats I gave before, with Caroline findings, and it looks scary.
Ther
Jamie Bresner
> What should I take into account when
> considering adding "Get Adobe
> Acrobat" next to a PDF link on a web page.
> Is this necessary?
Just recently suffered through a test of a site that does this.
All the participants who clicked it thought that they were going to get the
.pdf
>next to a PDF link on a web page. Is this necessary?
Yes. I am just looking at some web stats for a clients site, out of 12,000
visits today, only 2500 had a pdf viewer. This site is mainly focused on
consumers so these stats may not apply to your site.
James
http://blog.feralabs.com
2009/3/16 J
What should I take into account when considering adding "Get Adobe
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