Most reports available on the web are stored in either Acrobat PDF or PostScript
format. You can usually recognise the files from their filename suffix
(.pdf for Acrobat and .ps for PostScript).
Currently, the advantage of Acrobat is that free viewers are
widespread and easy to install on most computers. You can also find
viewing software on other ftp sites closer to you.
See Acrobat
Tutorial and Yahoo ->
Acrobat.
The PostScript format can be sent directly to a PostScript printer but
viewers are
less common. Nevertheless, most publishing software can output
PostScript so the format is widespread.
See Internet
PostScript Resources and Yahoo
-> PostScript.
Unfortunately, such files are quite bulky so they usually are
compressed. There are numerous data compression and decompression
programs with different (and sometimes proprietary) methods. It
requires some expertise to determine how a file was encoded by looking
at an extra trailing suffix (for example .sit, .gz, .zip,
etc...).
See "What
is this .xxx file type?" from the Compression
FAQ to know more and obtain software.
E-mail submission entails :
FTP submission entails :
Mark and Traci Ingram recommend their Letter Gothic font for printing computer output. You can download Mac and IBM-compatible versions.
Many more fonts are available on the net:
O'Reilly's Internet Font Archive