Chapter 11. PDF and HTML

For the last 2,000 years, paper has been a significant source for collecting and distributing an exponential amount of information. You either produced documents yourself or read others that were distributed using that age-old form. Although paper won’t be disappearing anytime soon, faster and more efficient methods for the distribution of information via the World Wide Web have established themselves firmly in our everyday lives. These methods include Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and Portable Document Format (PDF) by Adobe.

The appeal of both HTML and PDF is the ability to distribute information electronically ...

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