Experience with the use of Acrobat in the CAJUN publishing project

Adobe's Acrobat software, released in June 1993, is based around a new Portable Document Format (PDF) which offers the possibility of being able to view and exchange electronic documents, independent of the originating software, across a wide variety of supported hardware platforms (PC, Macinto...

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Main Author: Brailsford, David F.
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Published: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 1994
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description Adobe's Acrobat software, released in June 1993, is based around a new Portable Document Format (PDF) which offers the possibility of being able to view and exchange electronic documents, independent of the originating software, across a wide variety of supported hardware platforms (PC, Macintosh, Sun UNIX etc.). The fact that Acrobat's imageable objects are rendered with full use of Level 2 PostScript means that the most demanding requirements can be met in terms of high-quality typography and device-independent colour. These qualities will be very desirable components in future multimedia and hypermedia systems. The current capabilities of Acrobat and PDF are described; in particular the presence of hypertext links, bookmarks, and yellow sticker annotations (in release 1.0) together with article threads and multi-media plugins in version 2.0, This article also describes the CAJUN project (CD-ROM Acrobat Journals Using Networks) which has been investigating the automated placement of PDF hypertextual features from various front-end text processing systems. CAJUN has also been experimenting with the dissemination of PDF over e-mail, via World Wide Web and on CDROM.
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spelling nottingham-2152020-05-04T20:33:41Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/215/ Experience with the use of Acrobat in the CAJUN publishing project Brailsford, David F. Adobe's Acrobat software, released in June 1993, is based around a new Portable Document Format (PDF) which offers the possibility of being able to view and exchange electronic documents, independent of the originating software, across a wide variety of supported hardware platforms (PC, Macintosh, Sun UNIX etc.). The fact that Acrobat's imageable objects are rendered with full use of Level 2 PostScript means that the most demanding requirements can be met in terms of high-quality typography and device-independent colour. These qualities will be very desirable components in future multimedia and hypermedia systems. The current capabilities of Acrobat and PDF are described; in particular the presence of hypertext links, bookmarks, and yellow sticker annotations (in release 1.0) together with article threads and multi-media plugins in version 2.0, This article also describes the CAJUN project (CD-ROM Acrobat Journals Using Networks) which has been investigating the automated placement of PDF hypertextual features from various front-end text processing systems. CAJUN has also been experimenting with the dissemination of PDF over e-mail, via World Wide Web and on CDROM. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 1994 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Brailsford, David F. (1994) Experience with the use of Acrobat in the CAJUN publishing project. In: ACM European Conference on Hypermedia Technology, 18 - 23 September 1994, Edinburgh, UK. PDF journal publishing electronic journals CAJUN project multimedia documents
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journal publishing
electronic journals
CAJUN project
multimedia documents
Brailsford, David F.
Experience with the use of Acrobat in the CAJUN publishing project
title Experience with the use of Acrobat in the CAJUN publishing project
title_full Experience with the use of Acrobat in the CAJUN publishing project
title_fullStr Experience with the use of Acrobat in the CAJUN publishing project
title_full_unstemmed Experience with the use of Acrobat in the CAJUN publishing project
title_short Experience with the use of Acrobat in the CAJUN publishing project
title_sort experience with the use of acrobat in the cajun publishing project
topic PDF
journal publishing
electronic journals
CAJUN project
multimedia documents
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/215/