CD-ROM Acrobat Journals Using Networks

Brailsford, David F.; Harrison, Leon

Abstract

The available technologies for publishing journals electronically are surveyed. They range from abstract representations, such as SGML, concerned largely with the structure of the document, to formats such as PostScript which faithfully model the layout and the appearance. The issues are discussed in the context of choosing a format for electronically publishing the journal: Electronic Publishing -- Origination, Dissemination and Design. PostScript is neither widely enough available nor standardised enough to be suitable; a bitmapped pages approach suffers from being resolution-dependent in terms of the visual quality achievable. Reasons are put forward for the final choice of Adobe s new PDF document standard for creating electronic versions of the journal.

Citation

Brailsford, D. F., & Harrison, L. (1994). CD-ROM Acrobat Journals Using Networks.

• Conference Name: Digital Media and Electronic Publishing
• End Date: Dec 8, 1994
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 1994
• Deposit Date: Oct 25, 2005
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 9, 2007
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Keywords: PDF, PostScript, Acrobat, electronic journals, multimedia documents
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1024719