FAQs - Guinea Pig Needed

Hello, Hunt! You wrote on 29 Sep 2006 21:35:04 GMT: ??>>

??>> I thought of that. PDF reader programs are a free ??>> download. However the commercial programs you must buy to ??>> generate PDF files are anything but free, and I could not ??>> justify buying one for just this application. If I ever do ??>> install such software, I likely will use PDF files, at ??>> least as an option. Another good way is to use ftp ??>> download. I have an ftp download page on my server, but ??>> it is for private use. I do not want to open it up to the ??>> general public because it contains media files over 3 GB, ??>> and the bandwidth could soon become excessive if this page ??>> were available to all. Also not all have an ftp agent on ??>> their computer or know how to use it. But when you own a ??>> site, using ftp to upload and download from it often is ??>> the most convenient way to go. ??>>

H> Actually, my offer was to convert the FAQ to PDF. I've got H> Acrobat, plus several other similar programs. My only H> problem would be one of time, as I could not even consider H> the project until Nov.

It's true that Adobe will provide a PDF reader for free and it works well. My caveat was simply to warn that many people cannot

James Silverton Potomac, Maryland

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James,

I agree completely, and that is why I made the offer - to do the heavy- lifting. There is still the matter of hosting, whether it's a PDF, or a more traditional HTML. I vote for the "universality" of the PDF, rather than a ZIP /EXE, but that may just be me.

I'll check back in a few weeks, and see where this has progressed. My offer might well be rendered moot.

Hunt

I just had to clear up one point in this discussion. There are in fact, several freeware PDF creating applications for Windows that will allow you to create PDFs from any application that can print. They install a "printer" that you choose to print to which creates the file, much as Adobe Acrobat does.

The one I use is open source, and logically enough called PDF Creator:

dale m

A PDF is the obvious choice for this thing.

What about a list of books to suggest for both beginners and the more advanced, for the time being?

But exe files won't run on Macs.

This has been dropped because many are afraid to download .exe files even if they can. I posted a test using a common .zip file, and Mark Lipton opened it on a MAC. I do not plan to do anything else with downloadabe files for local computer use until the FAQs are nearly complete. This will save having to update both the website and a downloadable file every time Mark Lipton posts a new version of the FAQs.