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From: Golley, Shawn (Intern)
Date: Jul 5, 2007 7:10AM

Responding to the second angle of your question, since Michael covered
the other aspect pretty thoroughly:

it is a good idea to provide links to a central downloads page where you
can provide access to all of the necessary viewers or plugins at once,
rather than placing individual links on each page. We at the PTO
switched to this method about two years ago. This will drastically
reduce the maintenance required should a plugin update in version or a
site redesign cause the download link to change.

Shawn H. Golley
Intern, Section 508 Compliance Division
US Patent and Trademark Office
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