On Sunday 21 July 2002 04:04 pm, der.hans wrote:
> Am 21. Jul, 2002 schwätzte Lee Einer so:
> > format. PDF documents can probably be read by everyone on the list,
> > but I realize that not everybody is able to write to PDF format, which
I believe everything out there writes to postscript files, which can then be
converted using ps2pdf. If you are using a KDE application (and many
others), then you print the files directly to PDF with no intermediate step.
> PDF is almost, but not quite, an open format. While we might want to
> encourage other orgs to use it ( if it's functional ), I don't think we
> want to use it as there are better alternatives.
I personally have no problem with PDF. In fact, I generally run pdflatex to
convert my documents as I know I should be able to print them on any machine.
However, the PDF viewers that I tend to use (with the exception of gv, which
doesn't support encrypted PDF) don't really have that level of polish that I
have come to expect.
However, I would like ask what the better alternatives are. (I know about DVI
and postscript, but I wouldn't call either a "universal" format.) I'm sure
it is something really stupid that I simply glancing over (like JPEG). :-P
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