Experience with the use of Acrobat in the CAJUN publishing project

Brailsford, David F.

Abstract

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.

Citation

Brailsford, D. F. Experience with the use of Acrobat in the CAJUN publishing project. Presented at ACM European Conference on Hypermedia Technology

• Conference Name: ACM European Conference on Hypermedia Technology
• End Date: Sep 2, 1994
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 1994
• Deposit Date: Oct 25, 2005
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 9, 2007
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Keywords: PDF, journal publishing, electronic journals, CAJUN project, multimedia documents
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1024711