Attachments with TIGER Mail

[steve harley]

they whom i call Bill Wisse wrote:
> On 06/05/2008, at 9:13 AM, William Ehrich wrote:
> 
>> And your recipients will encounter two others: .pdf is very bulky, so 
>> if they have a dialup connection it's a long wait; .pdf is awkward to 
>> read on a computer screen.
> 
> I don't understand, I just saved a Numbers file of 20 pages and it is 
> only 84 kb and it
> shows up pretty good on my computer screen, in fact no different then 
> the original Numbers document.

yes, they can be quite small, although there are a lot of people 
who are incapable of managing the size of PDFs they send 
(receiving a 40MB PDF by email, as somtimes happens, is no fun on 
my low-end DSL connection)

i think PDFs are really good for emailing certain types of 
documents; much preferable to the numerous .doc, .ppt etc. files 
i receive; even if the "simulation of paper" is not the most 
ideal way to read on a computer, it has plenty of benefits; i 
often work on community issues where i mark up a PDF of a 
city-generated PDF of a planning document and bring that to a 
meeting with me on a laptop