Required PDF for STEP Modules Ballot

[David Price]

Gerry,

I went ahead and forwarded Pascal's comment to the modules team.  They are
not actually reading the HTML into Exchange to create the PDF, they are
reading it into a wordprocessor and doing some cleanup.  My understanding
is that what Exchange does is "recreate the web site" in PDF rather than
HTML although I have not tried this myself.  I don't know if they will be
able to do anything about links. I think the SC4 requirement is intended
more to be for producing paper for those not reviewing from a computer.

Thanks,
David

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"Radack, Gerald" <radack at ctc.com>@cme.nist.gov on 12/14/2000 01:50:05 PM

Sent by:  owner-qc at cme.nist.gov


To:   "'Pascal Huau'" <pascalhuau at CompuServe.COM>, David
      Price/Bethesda/IBM at IBMUS
cc:   Quality Committee <qc at cme.nist.gov>
Subject:  RE: Required PDF for STEP Modules Ballot



Pascal:

According to Dave's original email, the purpose of the PDF is to have "a
printable version (i.e. a PDF) so that people can review the documents on
airplanes, etc."  Even thought it may not be that hard to generate the
hyperlinks in the PDF, I question whether there is any value to doing so.
If
you want to review the document electronically, you should be using the
HTML
file.

          Gerry

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pascal Huau [mailto:pascalhuau at CompuServe.COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 1:03 PM
> To: David Price
> Cc: Quality Committee
> Subject: Re: Required PDF for STEP Modules Ballot
>
>
> David,
>
> The file we got, has no active hyperlink. Yet, it would be
> nice to have at
> least the internal links enabled.
> This can be done when you generate the PDF file: when you
> import an HTML
> file in Acrobat Distiller (4.0),  hyperlinks, corresponding
> to the HTML HREF
> links, are created within the PDF file and then you can
> browse your PDF file
> using the links within any Acrobat Reader.
>
> Regards,
> P. Huau
> Association GOSET
> 107,111 avenue Georges Clemenceau
> 92000 NANTERRE
> FRANCE
>