[Sigia-l] Labeling a PDF Archive

[Horacio Salazar]

How about "portable document"?

Cheers

- hs

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From: sigia-l-admin at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-admin at asis.org] On Behalf
Of Jeff Isom
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 11:27 AM
To: Sigia-l at asis.org
Subject: [Sigia-l] Labeling a PDF Archive


I'm working on a project for an organization that publishes magazines
monthly. Currently they archive the magazines in three formats (HTML,
PDF, and downloads for PDAs). The HTML portion is searchable using a
third party application (NextPage's NXT3). The PDF and PDA sections are
not searchable. I've tried to advocate consolidating the three sections
into a single interface that allows the user to search for content once
and then view it in the format that best fits their needs, but currently
there is no budget for that sort of a redesign.
 
The current page has three links to get into the content: "HTML" for the
searchable database, "PDF" for the PDF archive, and "Handheld" for the
PDA downloads. We have received feedback that most of our users don't
understand those terms so they don't know what to click on.
 
I'm looking for alternative terms that can be understood by our
non-technical audience. The term PDF seems to be causing the most
problems. I know "printer friendly" is used frequently for PDF pages,
but when I've seen "printer friendly" used, the user is typically within
the context of an article so it makes sense when they get a pop-up
window that displays the same article nicely formatted. In his case, we
are actually sending the user to an archive of PDF magazines. We need a
term that adequately describes that the user will see a digital copy of
the printed magazine complete with pictures, formatting etc. instead of
a searchable database of articles.
 
I would appreciate any suggestions on terms used to link to a PDF
archive that can be understood by non-technical users.
 
If you are interested in viewing the page I'm talking about go to
http://www.lds.org/gospellibrary/0,5082,4-1,00.html. (The links are on
the left hand navigation column) WARNING: THIS SITE CONTAINS RELIGIOUS
CONTENT.
 
Thanks for any help.
Jeff

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