CD/DVD publications
Putting your publications on CD-ROM discs make sense in today's business world. CD-ROMs are a portable, inexpensive way to distribute just about anything your business can produce. Manuals, tutorials, multimedia presentations and employee training documents are just some of the things that can be beautifully reproduced on this universal format. And with over 650 megs of storage space, practically everything can be transferred, including images and sound files.
Format choices
Oba Kunta Octopus can place your documents on CD in a variety of ways . . . HTML, PDF (Portable Document Format), Word Processor files, Presentation Slides, Flash--practically any file format you wish. Autorun can be added to allow hyperlinks and bookmarks, links to graphics, and the ability to play sound and/or video files.
With the PDF format you are required to use the Adobe(R) Acrobat(R) Reader software to view the files. Reader is a free viewing program and can be downloaded from Adobe's website or included on the CD. With HTML you can view the files using any browser. Both of the most popular browsers--Internet Explorer and Netscape(R) Navigator--are both offered free in some form.
The CD format choice
At this date, the CD-Rom format is still the most viable. Although DVD is now part of the market, currently it is not as widely used as the CD. Along with that, the DVD industry has still not settled on a standard that all companies producing DVD-Rewritable media can agree to. DVD is superior in both storage space, speed and the ability to handle large graphic files (such as movie and video clips), but the confusion surrounding a standard prevents it from being the format choice of the majority of businesses.