Adobe Acrobat Files for
Web Publishing
Computing & Information Services Department.
instructor: jim.cerny@unh.edu

This course was taught on July 23, 1997, at the time Acrobat Reader 3.0 was current. The outline content is not updated, but retained to illustrate several alternative formats for making it available.

The course outline is available in several formats, to illustrate some of the possible alternatives. The master copy was prepared with Word 5.1a.

HTML

Basic conversion from a Word document by MS Internet Assistant (available as an add-on to Word 6.0; conversion in later versions of Word may be different/better).

Adobe Acrobat

Basic conversion from the Word document by Acrobat Exchange.

Adobe Acrobat Access for visual disabilities

Conversion from the PDF document to simple HTML with Adobe's on-line Access utility at http://access.adobe.com/.

Common Ground's DigitalPaper Requires DP plug-in to view.

Basic conversion from the Word document.

PostScript

Print to PostScript for input to Acrobat Distiller. Requires GhostScript to view online.

Microsoft's Rich Text Format

A portable, ASCII (text) representation of a word processing document.

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Acrobat Reader information.

Free plug-ins for most desktop environments.

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What do PDF instructions look like, anyway?

PDF example.

Other Adobe Acrobat online resources.

• Adobe's Acrobat pages.
• Emerge's PDF zone. *
• Internet Publishing with Acrobat by Gordon Kent.

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