October 22, 2003

Using PDF Files

In my opinion, PDF files are time consuming. They may be good for printing, but waiting for the adobe reader to load, and then print takes time.

I think having a printer friendly page is the best option.

Using CSS:

<style type="text/css" media="print">
body { font: 10pt Arial; }
img { display:none; }
div#drug {margin-left: 1in; margin-right: 1in;}
p { font: 10pt Arial, serif; color: black; }
</style>

Carefully designing a page with CSS can make the printer friendly documents always a click away.

The next best option is the flash paper, but it requires a flash player 6. For the first time, the player load requires a reboot, so I'm for waiting for the penetration level to get a little better, since it requires admin rights in house to load flash player 6. The other issue is that the user has to create the document in contribute and then creates the flash paper.

Posted by Elyse at October 22, 2003 9:37 PM