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Subject:Re: pdf vs. html From:Beth Friedman <bjf -at- WWW -dot- WAVEFRONT -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 16 Jul 1998 19:55:38 -0500
In our previous episode, Scott Wahl said:
> Why are buying FrameMaker to create PDF files? Just buy Adobe Acrobat
> Exchange. You postscript Word files, and then use Distiller (part of the
> Exchange package) to distill the postcript files into PDF. Acrobat Exchange
> costs about $200, FrameMaker costs about $2000. FrameMaker is great, but not
> if all you want to do is deliver Word files using PDF.
Uh, that turns out not to be the case. At worst, from Adobe,
FrameMaker is about $850, I think. Street price is often around $550.
And I just found a mail-order vendor who's selling it for $247.
That's the full version, not an upgrade.
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Beth Friedman bjf -at- wavefront -dot- com
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"Don't you mean -- aquamarines?"
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