At 12:03 AM 3/20/98 +0500, SIva Lokanathan wrote:
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>I shall very much appreciate information about the advantages of the above.


The Adobe software that genarates PDF files is Acrobat.  Acrobat
is a univeral format for the Internet.  Adobe provides the Acrobat
reader free of charge to download for most Operating Systems.

Using Acrobat to generate Text files for Internet download allows the
author of the text to create documents with illistrations & text formatting
that is somewhat universal to all computer systems.

The benefit to the author is he can publish documents that are brochure
slick and available to everyone on the Internet.  The person wishing to
read the PDF file can easily download the Acrobat reader to display
the document.  Acrobat also becomes a "plug-in" for most web browers
to enable viewing these documents on the fly from the web.

Acrobat is not the only system available to accomplish this...  only the
most widely used.

   Bob