On-line Documents

Why are all your NEWS documents in .RTF format? Why note use Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format?

.rtf (rich text format) is a universal word processing format, supported by IBM PCs, MacIntosh, and many Unix-based word processors. This ensures that anyone can read our documents, regardless of whether or no they have Adobe's reader installed. RTF is also a more compact format than PDF, which minimizes download time and costs for our dial-up users.

Why do some of your documents contain small boxes which say "graphic removed"?

Many of the documents we present -- for example, newsletters from the Village -- are not available to us in electronic format. We typically scan them and use an OCR (optical character recognition) program to transform them to .rtf (rich text) format. Eliminating unnecessary graphics minimizes the download time for our dial-up users; generally we indicate where items were removed. For example, the Village's December 2005 newsletter contained many holiday graphics which were irrelevant to the content; removing these decreased the overall document size by more than 95%.

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