On-line Resources

... download the free Acrobat Reader

Other places of interest include:

Acrobat and PDF

• Acrobatics, the Journal for Acrobat Users
• The Acrobat User Forum
• Acropolis, an on-line Acrobat magazine
• Adobe Systems' web site
• Douglas Stewart Company
• Philip Smith's PDF Corner, with a PDF game ...
• The PDF Zone
• The PDF-L mailing list archive

  Journals and Publishing

• Epublish-Internet Publishing
• ISO/IEC JTC1/SC18/WG8 Home Page, for information on ISO standards work on Document Description and Processing Languages, including SGML, DSSSL, SPDL, SMDL, HyTime etc.
• ISSN information from the ISSN Internation Centre in Paris.
• The Journal of Electronic Publishing. According to the journal this is `An electronic archive of works that we feel are thoughtful and provocative as well as reflective of the current issues and trends in electronic publishing.'
• OCLC. The Online Computer Library Centre
• Publishers on the Web
• The Serial Item and Contribution Identifier (SICI) and Publisher Item Identifier
• The SGML Web page

  Projects, Research Groups and Specialist Interest Groups

• British Computer Society, Electronic and Multimedia Publishing Specialist Group, e-mail: bcsepsg@eps-edge.demon.co.uk
• Hyper-G Project (now commercialised as `HyperWave') at the Institute of Information Processing and Computer Supported New Media, Graz University of Technology, Austria
• The Electronic Libraries project, Bath, UK
• Software Tools and Electronic Publishing group at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK
• The Electronic Publishing Research Group at the University of Nottingham, England
• Open Journal Framework project at the Universities of Nottingham and Southampton, UK
• Liberation project at the University of Nottingham.

  Software

• Ghostscript can display PostScript and PDF files, and includes various output devices including PDF and GIF
• xpdf -- a free PDF viewer which runs under UNIX and VMS with the X Window System. Source and compiled binaries available.