- The ETEXT Archives
- John Labovitz's e-zine-list
- e-zine-list: Other e-zine-related resources
Some interesting advice for electronic publishers:
- Robert Sward's Why I Publish in e-Zines
- The Book of Zines
- More HTML for Dummies - Resources
- McGraw-Hill's book
Paperless Publishing by Colin Haynes
- Prima Publishing's book
Every Writer's Essential Guide to Online Resources and Opportunities
by Gary Gach
Document Formats
A major issue in publishing on the Web is how to present the results
to users. The language used to build Web pages (HTML) is fine when
the publisher doesn't want control of the final presentation, but
there are several competing tools available for displaying and
printing documents so they look the same as when created.
The following articles explore some of the options:
- Paperless Publishing-Chapter 6 - Section 1
"Capture the look and feel"
- Seybold Special Report, Vol 1, No 3
I found three choices for presenting documents through the Web:
Acrobat, Common Ground, and Envoy. They all provide free viewers that
allow people to view documents, plus products that allow the creation
and annotation of documents in their format. The viewers are available
for Windows and Macintosh systems; the Acrobat and Common Ground
viewers are also available for various UNIX systems.
- Acrobat (Portable Document Format or PDF) from Adobe Systems Inc.
- Acrobat Overview from Adobe
- Download the Acrobat Free Reader
- The Portable Document Force Home Page
- Acrobat links from Yahoo!
- The New York Times TimesFAX service offers
Acrobat information
- Common Ground (Digital Paper or DP) from Hummingbird Communications Ltd.
- Common Ground Overview from Hummingbird
- Download the Common Ground MiniViewer
- Reviews:
- Seybold Report on Desktop Publishing Vol 8, No 1
- PC Magazine (11/21/95)
- LAN Times 12/4/95
- Letter-LAN Times 3/4/96
- Envoy (EVY) from Tumbleweed Software Corporation
- Envoy Overview from Tumbleweed
- Download the Envoy Viewer
- Envoy vs Acrobat (Tumbleweed's perspective)
- Novell Envoy 7 for Windows or Macintosh Executive Summary
- In Note on Envoy Documents, a Stanford webmaster explains why he uses Envoy
- The New York Times TimesFAX service offers
Envoy information