Saturday, January 1, 2000

PDF files on Windows CE: an exclusive preview

.KEYWORD primer
.FLYINGHEAD BETA WATCH
.TITLE PDF files on Windows CE: an exclusive preview
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.SPOTLIGHT figalt primer-cover.gif
.SUMMARY Corporate America loves Adobe System, Inc.’s Portable Document Format (PDF). After all, most major layout and documentation software packages have the ability to save a file in this format. Soon, there will be a product from a company called Ansyr that will allow you to view PDFs on your handheld. In this exclusive beta watch report, Contributing Editor Clifford Brooks tells you whether Ansyr is the answer.
.AUTHOR Clifford V. Brooks
Corporate America loves Adobe System, Inc.’s Portable Document Format (PDF). After all, most major layout and documentation software packages have the ability to save a file in this format. Unlike HTML, which tries to conform to the confines of the technology at hand, a PDF document looks pretty much the same whether you’re displaying it on a passive matrix 10-inch laptop display or an Apple 24-inch Studio Display.

Adobe describes PDF as:

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