Required PDF for STEP Modules Ballot

[Radack, Gerald]

David:

If the modules team is willing to generate the links for Pascal, that's
great.  But I am concerned about a precedent being set. QC is supposed to be
coming up with guidelines for HTML publication. I don't want to see
generating hyperlinks in the PDF be incorporated into a standing document as
a requirement for all projects publishing documents in HTML, unless somebody
can explain what requirement a hyperlinked PDF file satisfies that
hyperlinked HTML does not satisfy.

		Gerry

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Price [mailto:dmprice at us.ibm.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 2:03 PM
> To: qc at cme.nist.gov
> Cc: wg10 at steptools.com
> Subject: RE: Required PDF for STEP Modules Ballot
> 
> 
> 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
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> > FRANCE
> >
> 
>