Accented Cyrillic on the web

[Kjetil Ra Hauge]

There is one solution that is not dependent on the user having certain
fonts installed, and gives superb control over the layout of pages: serve
the document as a .pdf file. The users need to have the Acrobat plug-in
installed, but that is a commonly used and freely available product. When
you click on the URL for a .pdf file, your browser will start up Acrobat
Reader, and its navigation bar will blend, Robocop-like (or was it The
Terminator? Exterminator? - never mind), into the browser window.

Pdf files are made with Acrobat Distiller (commercial product) or
PDF-writer (also commercial, but included with some publishing packages).
With Acrobat Exchange (part of the Distiller/Exchange package) you can also
add clickable links to pages, and they will behave like plain links in
ordinary HTML pages. No possibilities for Javascript though, and there are
limitations to the way links work - you cannot bring up a link in a new
window, for instance.

--- Kjetil Ra Hauge, U. of Oslo.
--- Tel. +47/22 85 67 10, fax +47/22 85 41 40