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From Paper to Web: How to Make Information Instantly Accessible

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As a librarian and information professional by education and most of my professional life, I find this book excellent in both content and format. It thoroughly discusses the archive process, as well as the weighty process of comparing efficiency of PDF and HTML. Mr. McKinley also describes how to fully utilize Acrobat's features without straying very far from the real point of web and electronic publishing: Preservation and transmission of mankinds great boby of knowledge. Mr. McKinley has a good approach to layout and readability - the text is spiced with sidebars, hints and observations. I recommend this to anyone dealing with electronic preservation of records, internet publishing or any activity along this long continuum.

Had I read the other 5-star reviewsa little more carefully, I would probably have not purchased thisbook. The content is rich with theory and trivial history but when it comes to helping a programmer get meaningful work done, it seems to fall short.

From Paper to Web is a good introduction to the concept of PDF and might be better than paying hundreds of dollars for a copy of Acrobat just to learn it. On the other hand, I have programmed in PDF and was expecting to pick up a few new concepts and pointers but was sorely disappointed. As a programmer, I found this book to be unusable. Furthermore, I will be looking into getting a refund.

It's too bad that it will probably take a full generation before the concepts espoused in this book become common practice.

Never the less, for a solid overview of digital documents and efficient digital document management, this book provides a concise foundation from which the reader can begin to work from.

The book was an excellent introduction into a paperless world. The author has an clear grasp adobe acrobat and communicates the relevant facts.