Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 23:56:18 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
From: Samuel Lubell <lubell at cais.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: MIMOSA 27 now online
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

At 08:29 AM 3/7/02 -0800, Richard wrote:
>> If you want the on-screen version to match the
>> printed version, HTML is
>> not the way to go.  You need to look at Adobe
>> Acrobat or some such ($$).
>>
>
>We thought of that, but a 60-page fanzine converted to
>PDF would be a bit much for someone to view unless
>they had broadband.  For now, HTML seemed like it
>would mostly work OK, but I'm not so happy in the way
>Netscape displays things a bit differently than MSIE.
>
>We could do browser-specific versions, which wouldn't
>be all that difficult to do, but it would be a bit
>time consuming.

If you really wanted to do PDF you could do each article as a separate PDF
file and then have links to it.  But, as the editor of a fanzine that also
appears on the web, I don't think exactly duplicating the layout is
necessary on the web as long as the text and the art all is there.