text to pdf to email

[Brian K. White]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harry K. Whacker" <harry.whacker at gmail.com>
To: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 1:14 PM
Subject: Re: text to pdf to email


DEAR BILL:
the "PDF" stands for "Portable Document File". it's defenitly better for
E-mail and Internet cause is portable. If you don't use "PDF" you can be
sure they see it? also "PDF" is always faster (hense the name "portable"!)
and. You can aslo get it from FREE from the Web. here is a man who will tell
you how: "PDF" on the Web. Also It's more secureity! and better reliable for
E-mail because it's portable. also E-mail is not supposed to be text! you
can get also do picture and animation and "PDF"! i even think FILEPro
datatables are PDF?? so it practically standard
now.<http://web.ask.com/web?q=Where+can+I+download+%22PDF%22+on+the+Web%3F&qsrc=0&o=0>

Kindly,<http://web.ask.com/web?q=Where+can+I+download+%22PDF%22+on+the+Web%3F&qsrc=0&o=0>
HK 
Whacker<http://web.ask.com/web?q=Where+can+I+download+%22PDF%22+on+the+Web%3F&qsrc=0&o=0>

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Like I tell my customers, "I'll send you 100 pdf attachement emails, and 100 
plain text or lightweight html emails, and after that you tell me which ones 
you want to get all day every day.
I garantee you'll want to pull your hair out by the 10th pdf email.

It is absolutely the opposite of faster and more convenient. All it's good 
for is for when it really matters that the recipient see _exactly_ the same 
thing you see, right down to the style of font and where wrapping occurs 
etc... IE: graphic designers handling artwork and pre-press layouts etc..., 
special "preprinted" official forms that must be filled in and printed and 
they must be exactly like a xerox of the original form, and static published 
documents like manuals & books where a pdf takes the place of a printed 
book.

We _want_ invoices and such to be pretty but really, the information is 
worth more than the looks.
The smart thing is a compromise where you send things like invoices with 
html, which is designed to re-fit itself as best as possible into the users 
particular display and to be efficient in terms of file size.
Rather than embedding a full copy in the document of all fonts that are used 
in the document, html makes a sort of "suggestion" and whatever font the 
user has that is closest is used, and if the recipient is going blind and 
has his display set at very low resolution with very large font sizes, the 
html will wrap lines as necessary while still maintaining the overall 
structure of the document, _if_ the html was written sanely.

People who handle a lot of emails every day can not have their procedure 
slowed down by having to click on attachments and wait for acrobat to open 
up on every one when plain text or html are immediately visible and they 
don't even have to "open up" they are right there in the preview pane 
already.

This is not a subjective personal prefference issue either. Yes, you can 
personally prefer pdfs, just like you can personally prefer the space 
shuttle instead of a littel rice-burner car. It doesn't change the fact that 
the rice-burner is in fact far more efficient for going to the grocery 
store. Slower is slower and less efficient is less efficient and it's an 
indisputable measurable fact that using pdfs for most email is slower and 
less efficient, and at *both* the client and the server.
It's popularity and the desire to use it for everything arises out of 
ignorance basically.

Brian K. White  --  brian at aljex.com  --  http://www.aljex.com/bkw/
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On 5/10/05, Bill Campbell <bill at celestial.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 09, 2005, Tony Freehauf wrote:
> >hi experts
> >any one care to suggest a way to move a text output to pdf in linux?
> >i know this is not filepro but i plan on doing the text to pdf to email
> >from filepro.
>
> Why would anybody want to change text to pdf for e-mail inclusion
> since e-mail is supposed to be text???
>
> Bill
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