I wonder how many people out there are going to be unable to read the full
report because they do not have an Adobe viewer installed and available to read
the PDF files????? How many people can read text and HTML and Word Perfect
files, but cannot read a PDF file?
Alan
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Cc: law-lib@ucdavis.edu (Reply requested)
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 96 08:44:26 -0500
From: "Judith C. Russell" <jrussell@gpo.gov>
Reply-To: jrussell@gpo.gov
Sender: owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu
Subject: Re: FDLP Study: Draft Report on GPO Web Site and Federal Bulletin
Board
To: jrussell@gpo.gov
>On Tue, 2 Apr 1996, Judith C. Russell wrote:
>
>> There are 20 files available. Four files are available in both ASCII
text
>> (.txt) and Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (.pdf). All other
files
>> are available only in PDF format. The complete file list is as follows:
>
>20 FILES?!? How hard would it have been to put the whole thing in a
>simple compressed PDF or Postscript file. That would be a lot easier to
>download, and a lot more user-friendly. For that matter, why not HTML
>and ASCII formats?
>
>This doesn't bode well for the future of public access to government
>documents. The benefits of electronic delivery of information *should*
>include flexibility of format and ease of use.
>
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>Jim Milles
>Head of Computer Services, Saint Louis University Law Library
>millesjg@sluvca.slu.edu http://lawlib.slu.edu/milles.htm
>
>
Thank you for your message.
The entire report is in three files - report.pdf, attach.pdf and
exhibit.pdf. However, some of our users can't handle large files, so we
have also offered the attachments as smaller files - this permits people to
download only the segments of interest. The other files are introductory
material -- also in the report -- again for people who want a few of the
key elements like the executive summary or the roster of particpants
without being forced to take it all.
The document actually was created , and exists, as three separate
WordPerfect 6.0 files - report, attachments, exhibit - and the PDF files
parallel that.
The announcement message made it clear that there was an "all attachments"
file as well as separate files for groups of attachments. It also made it
clear that there were several files available in both ASCII text and pdf.
There are graphics, footnotes, etc. in the report, so we did not choose to
make it available as ASCII text.
Judy Russell <jrussell@gpo.gov>
Electronic Information Dissemination Services (EIDS)
Mail Stop SDE
U.S. Government Printing Office
Washington, DC 20401
Phone: 202/512-1622; Fax: 202/512-1262
For Orders & Assistance contact the GPO Access User Support Team:
E-Mail: gpoaccess@gpo.gov; Fax: 202/512-1262; or Phone: 202/512-1530
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