A surprising number of number of people seem to have deleted my
message(s) about Adobe Acrobat and then repented at leisure, so I am
boring the rest of you by reposting the only bit I have myself which are
the parts copied from the Acrobat Sampler CD.
Since librarians are going to be the big winners in understanding this
technology, I urge you again to get hold of the CD Sampler (which
includes
Acrobat Reader). It is far less painful than downloading it from anywhere
else and contains over 150 Meg of examples including the Old and New
Testament and the complete works of Shakespeare. It all makes great
holiday browsing and its faster than the Web. The more people
understand the technology as consumers the more authors will be
encouraged to deliver material this way. Incidentally, the Evening
Standard weighs in at about
5.5Meg.
Example 1
EVENING STANDARD
Sample edition (18th January, 1994) from Associated Newspapers in
Adobe
Acrobat Portable Document Format
Published in London, the Evening Standard is one of three newspapers
published by Associated Newspapers - the other two being: The Daily
Mail and
The Mail on Sunday.
Associated Newspapers has been working with Adobe's Acrobat
technology for some time now as part of their electronic publishing
strategy.
In conjunction with Adobe, the publisher has completed a very
successful test. Each day as soon as the Evening Standard is published,
the electronic publishing group converts the newspaper into Acrobat
Portable Document Format
(PDF), and transmits it from London to Adobe's Corporate Headquarters
in
Mountain View, California via ISDN. It is available on Adobe's Acrobat
server for all employees to view and print, as desired. The average
transmission time is less than 10 minutes.
Building on this strategy, Associated Newspapers is now planning to
produce a
CD-ROM every month, containing back-copies of the Evening Standard,
The Daily
Mail and The Mail on Sunday in Acrobat PDF format. This CD-ROM will be
commercially available as well as being made available to libraries and
Government bodies.
Lord Rothermere, the Chairman of Associated Newspapers lives in Paris,
and now, rather than having to wait several hours for his copy of each
newspaper edition to arrive by plane, the paper is delivered to him almost
immediately, electronically, in Acrobat PDF format.
Associated Newspapers is also planning to deliver their papers
electronically to other news organisations (including television stations),
using Acrobat.
Associated Newspapers has developed a software-based artwork
delivery system, called ADS, which significantly improves the efficiency
of delivering advertising artwork to publishers. It is an industry standard
in Europe. All the manuals for this product are available in Acrobat PDF
format.
Internally, Associated Newspapers is expanding their use of Acrobat to
share information electronically, faster and more effectively than ever
before.
Example 2
The Figaro's Concorde Project
This operation involves a national newspaper, a national airlines,
communications, several Macs, a Sun and a PC. The "Figaro" is the
largest
French national newspaper. The pages are laid out on one of their
Macintosh
Quadras using Quark Xpress and the PostScript files are generated and
stored on one of their Sun servers.
After testing Acrobat, the Figaro's Information Systems people got the
idea of the "Concorde Project". The purpose of this project is to allow the
passengers on Air France's New York to Paris flight on the Concorde
supersonic plane to read the lasted issue of the Figaro as they break
through the sound barrier.
..
This is how it's done :
1) As mentioned above, the PostScript files for each page are saved on
a Sun server.
2) A Macintosh station opens the PostScript file on the Sun server and
distills it.
3) The resulting PDF file is stored in a transfer folder.
4) This PDF file is transferred by modem to a PC in the JFK Airport office
of
Air France.
5) Air France opens the PDF file with Acrobat Exchange for Windows
and prints it out on a 600 dpi PostScript laser printer in a A3 format.
6) The issue is distributed to passengers boarding the Concorde leaving
for
Paris.
The creation of a PDF version of the newspaper does not require extra
work because the newspaper already has the PostScript files on hand
and the distillation will soon be triggered automatically. The Figaro likes
the PDF file format because it travels unaffected from one platform to
another and because the small file size saves time and money when
transferring the newspaper by modem.
The following story was copied from a newspaper article formatted
exactly as it appeared in the Evening Standard but obviously loosing a lot
in this transmission. Beats faxing:
Typist wins record payout in RSI case
AN INLAND Revenue office worker today collected record compensation
of almost
L80,000 after being forced to give up her job through repetitive strain
injury , writes Tony Maguire. The case of the woman - who worked as a
typist in West London - sets an important legal precedent only three
months after a
High Court judge dismissed RSI as "meaningless". Clive Brooke, general
sec-retary of the Inland Revenue Staff Federation, said his union was
pursuing more than 150 other cases. The Inland Revenue agreed to an
out-of-court set-tlement following joint research with the federation over
the impact of RSI. Picture: GLENN COPUS
Greetings from Oz!
Richard_M._Ure@aapda.com.au
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