Time: Tue Nov 05 20:01:26 1996
To: "Inc." <nwave@ninthw.com>
From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: Adobe Acrobat?
Cc: 
Bcc: Neil Nordbrock, Richard Ginn, Richard McDonald, Nancy Lord

At 05:34 PM 11/5/96 -0700, you wrote:
>>>Thanks for the EXCELLENT form. I will add it to my collection of forms 
>>>that will become available in Adobe Acrobat format sometime next year as 
>>>The Reliance Defense CD-ROM.
>>>
>>>-bug
>>>
>
>Acrobat write PDF (portable document format).  It will become a standard
>especially on the internet.  It's better than RTF, but not as 
>established...
>yet...
>
>Cheers,
>Dean

Dean and Stefani:

Here are seven steps to data heaven:

I've decided that the native MS-WORD for DOS
format, Version 5.0B, is not all that bad
and has a lot of advantages:

1.  Microsoft is so big, its data structures
are becoming de facto standards;

2.  All of the MS Windows word processors
can handle .DOC files written by this version
of WORD for DOS;

3.  If and when we find intermediate formats
we must support, in addition to WORD for DOS,
we can fall back on .RTF, which this version
of WORD for DOS can write, no problem;

4.  The text-only format, right-justified,
which I upload via email, is always available
as Esperanto for bridging email to other 
platforms;

5.  We will convert .DOC and/or .RTF files
into .HTML files, with one change: underlined
case cites will be converted to italics;

6.  We will forgo line numbers in all .HTML
documents, but we will retain them (if present)
in the original .DOC files;

7.  All .DOC files will be available for FTP
download, in their original format.

So, you need to point me in the direction of
the preferred Web page authoring software, and
I can start staging files to you, for installation
on the web site.  How about Front Page?  That
would be a natural, given point 1 above.

I like this procedure, because it is quite simple
and straightforward.  We can always spin off special
formats, for those unique cases where people cannot
download files via web browsers. 

PDF files can be added later, as time and demand
dictate. 

/s/ Paul Mitchell



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