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Subject:Re: PDF vs. paper From:"Lenk, D. S. (Don)" <don -dot- lenk -at- LMCO -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 23 Dec 1998 09:30:47 -0500
We use PDF to incorporate legacy information into our electronic
tech manuals. The legacy information covers equipment retained
from a previous version of the system. Rather than regenerate the
information, we created PDFs from the Interleaf files and linked to
them from our electronic manuals.
We found that using Acrobat Reader to view the PDFs is a very
cost-effective and flexible way to present legacy information.
