DCRB Chapter 5 Analysis

[John Attig]

Bob's question was regarding the Acrobat Reader.  In order to create .pdf 
files you need another program called Acrobat Distiller.  I have a copy, 
and some others may have as well.  So long as some member of the group has 
the program, they can create the files.

I'm surprised that Bob had problems installing Acrobat Reader at 
home.   It's a fairly simple program.  On the other hand, I don't know 
about the size of the file and all of my download experience has been on 
the T1 network connection at work.  I know things work very differently 
over a modem.

         John

At 12:17 PM 10/5/00 , Patrick Russell wrote:
>Bob:
>
>I have Acrobat reader both at home and at work.  No problem.   However, I
>do not know how to convert a WordPerfect or MsWord  document to PDF.  Nor
>how to create a document in PDF  or convert such document to html. (Neither
>WordPerfect nor MsWord give this as "Save as" option) I find that
>WordPerfect works better for html than MSWord, also Composer in Netscape.
>MsOffice2000 has the rather elaborate "FrontPage" program for html, which I
>have not used.
>
>Should we continue to submit to you documents (such as my Printers' RI
>examples) in MsWord, WordPerfect, or what?  I am a bit reluctant, as I'm
>sure others are, to learn still another program for submitting items for
>the RBMS BSC web page
>
>Patrick
>
>At 11:50 AM 10/5/00 -0600, you wrote:
> >Dear DCRB-Lers,
> >
> >I think I've corrected the printing problem, so Gregory's analysis should
> >print out fine now. Thank you to John for offering to convert the file to
> >PDF format. Just for future reference, is there anyone on the list who is
> >NOT able to read files in PDF format (that is, is there anyone who does not
> >have the Adobe Acrobat Reader?) I know for example I have never been able
> >to download the Reader to my machine at home, so I wonder if anyone else is
> >in the same boat? If no one on the list has a problem with PDF files, that
> >might be an easier way to go in the future than converting Word documents
> >to html.
> >
> >Bob
> >
> >At 11:32 AM 10/5/00 -0400, you wrote:
> >
> >>One of the easiest things to do is to create an Adobe Acrobat .pdf
> >>file.  If you send me the original Word document, I'd be glad to create
> >>the file for you.
> >>
> >>         John
> >>
> >>At 01:50 PM 10/4/00 , Robert L. Maxwell wrote:
> >>>Gregory Pass's comparison and analysis of DCRB Ch. 5 and AACR2 is now at
> >>>the DCRB site at
> >>>
> >>>http://www.lib.byu.edu/~catalog/people/rlm/bsc/dcrb/5.htm
> >>>
> >>>I invite everyone to look at this and then comment on specific proposals
> >>>or make proposals of your own. (I also remind you of the Chapter 2
> >>>analysis posted last week.) [Note: do not try to print the document until
> >>>you read the following paragraph.]
> >>>
> >>>Now for a different subject: Do we have any html or web experts among us?
> >>>I am having the dickins of a time getting these documents posted for some
> >>>reason. Gregory and Jennifer sent these recent documents to me as
> >>>Microsoft Word documents, and converting them from this format to html
> >>>has been harder that one might imagine. For example, I warn you against
> >>>printing the Chapter 5 analysis until I manage to figure out what's
> >>>wrong--it looks fine on the screen, but when it prints out it prints out
> >>>one word per line so that this document, when I printed it out just now,
> >>>printed on 125 pages in long skinny columns instead of about ten pages as
> >>>it should have. Does somebody know what is wrong here????? Help!!!!
> >>>Perhaps there is someone who can give me some advice on the conversion of
> >>>these documents.
> >>>
> >>>Thanks,
> >>>Bob
> >>>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> >>>Robert L. Maxwell
> >>>Special Collections and Ancient Languages Cataloger
> >>>6430 Harold B. Lee Library
> >>>Brigham Young University
> >>>Provo, UT 84602
> >>>(801) 378-5568
> >>>robert_maxwell at byu.edu
> >>>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> >
> >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> >Robert L. Maxwell
> >Special Collections and Ancient Languages Cataloger
> >6430 Harold B. Lee Library
> >Brigham Young University
> >Provo, UT 84602
> >(801) 378-5568
> >robert_maxwell at byu.edu
> >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> >
> >
> >