RE: RSS inside PDF

Yes, I am gravitating back to simply providing external links inside the PDF
document. 

Many interesting things could be done if I was building the PDFs on the fly
at reading time, but I'm not ... 



-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Kearney [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 10:08 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [syndication] RSS inside PDF


> (which, obviously, must be writeable -- big snag with most e-book
> delivery systems ... not sure I have an answer for that).

Yeah, if you're creating PDFs then it's HIGHLY likely the users consuming
them are going to assume they're like other PDFs they use.  Those aren't
"active" documents most of them time, they're just printable versions.

That and you'd probably incur the wrath of the upgrade gods because of
needing new adobe acrobat client software on all the user machines.  While
adobe would certainly love to sell upgrades for it there might be resistance
from the users and management about it.

Live updates from RSS URLs is *fraught* with perils.  Most significantly of
which being abuse of the RSS servers by using page-load activities.  I know
nothing about how a 'properly constructed' ADBC document would work but I'm
guessing it might not be geared toward being RSS-friendly.  I could be
mistaken.  Additional hassles are that the users might want or need to view
the documents in a disconnected fashion (laptops, pda, home machine, etc).
Using a live reference to an external document is gonna break in those
cases.

Perhaps it's worth a step back and asking 'what are you trying to
accomplish'?

-Bill Kearney



 
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