Accented Cyrillic on the web

[UDUT, KENNETH]

     The nice thing about PDF-writer, for example, is its utter
     simplicity.  It simply acts as another printer added to your
     computer.  You print to the PDF-Writer device, and it asks you a
     couple of questions (filename, how you want to compress it,
     font-embedding, etc) - and that's it - your document is ready for
     distribution.

     I haven't used it extensively, but as far as I know, it should work
     just fine with WP6-8 and MSWord or anything else you toss at it.

     How well will it handle accented fonts?  I don't know :)  But it
     has worked well so far - PDF *does* stand for "Portable Document
     Format", and it tries to succeed in this regard :)

     -Kenneth
     kenneth.udut at spcorp.com


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Subject: Accented Cyrillic on the web
Author:  "Kjetil Ra Hauge" [SMTP:K.R.Hauge at easteur-orient.uio.no] at
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Date:    07/30/1999 6:59 PM


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.
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