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PHP and MySQL Web Development - P148: PHP and MySQL Web Development teaches the reader to develop dynamic, secure, commercial Web sites. Using the same accessible, popular teaching style of the first edition, this best-selling book has been updated to reflect the rapidly changing landscape of MySQL and PHP. | Evaluating Document Formats 707 If we present our visitors with an ASCII file however we have very little control over the appearance of their cannot control fonts or page breaks. We can only include text and have very little control over have no control over a recipient s duplication or modification of the document. This is the method that makes it easiest for the recipient to fraudulently alter her certificate. HTML An obvious choice for delivering a document on the Web is HTML. Hypertext Markup Language is specifically designed for this purpose. As you are no doubt already aware it includes formatting control syntax to include objects such as images and is compatible with some variation with a variety of operating systems and software. It is fairly simple so it will be both easy to design and quick for a script to generate and deliver. Drawbacks to using HTML for this application include limited support for print related formatting such as page breaks little consistency in the output on different platforms and programs and variable quality printing. In addition although HTML can include any type of external element the capability of the browser to display or use these elements cannot be guaranteed for unusual types. Word Processor Formats Particularly for intranet projects providing documents as word processor documents makes some sense. However for an Internet project using a proprietary word processor format will exclude some visitors but given its market dominance Microsoft Word would make sense. Most users will either have access to Word or to a word processor that will try to read Word files. Windows users without Word can download the freeware Word Viewer from http office 000 Generating a document as a Microsoft Word document has some advantages. As long as you have a copy of Word designing a document is easy. We have very good control over the printed appearance of our documents and a lot of .