We're currently using Acrobat 6.0.4 Professional on Windows XP to publish
our tech manuals on the Web. (Originals mostly in InDesign 2.0.2, a few
still in PageMaker.) Generally we're still saving back to Reader 5
compatibility, although it's gotten to the point that even with that, a user
with Reader 5 won't be able to open a lot of stuff and we advise them to
upgrade Reader.

Some of our documents are more graphic-intensive than others, and in those
cases some of our users in the field find that the time it takes to open a
document is unacceptable.

Is this improved in Acrobat 7? is the compression better or anything like
that? If we can tell the bean-counters upstairs that upgrading to 7 will
improve usability in the field, they might approve the expenditure. :)

(the next challenge will be getting the bean-counters to approve the
purchase of 6 copies of IDCS2... would that improve performance in the field
too?)

And btw, I do push PDF Enhancer from time to time, but I think my supervisor
thinks it's going to be hard enough to get approval to buy the current
versions of the basic software, without trying for extras too. You may have
heard in the news that times are tough in the airline industry?

Terri Hamilton
Ryan International Airlines
Technical Publications
thamilton@flyryan.com


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