From ajosey@rdg.opengroup.org Tue Jul 22 19:46:10 1997 Received: from mailgate.rdg.opengroup.org (mailgate.rdg.opengroup.org [192.153.166.4]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA16194 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 1997 19:46:08 +0200 Received: by mailgate.rdg.opengroup.org; id AA28847; Tue, 22 Jul 1997 18:46:52 GMT Message-Id: <9707221846.AA28847@mailgate.rdg.opengroup.org> Received: by mailhome.rdg.opengroup.org (1.36.108.10/16.2) id AA03172; Tue, 22 Jul 1997 18:36:53 +0100 From: ajosey@rdg.opengroup.org (Andrew Josey) Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 18:36:52 +0100 In-Reply-To: "D. J. Blackwood"'s message as of Jul 22, 12:17pm. Reply-To: ajosey@rdg.opengroup.org (Andrew Josey) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: "D. J. Blackwood" , SC22WG15@dkuug.dk, baker@dad.cs.fsu.edu, wg15-uk@opengroup.org Subject: Re: (SC22WG15.1061) liaison from WG9 On Jul 22, 12:17pm in "(SC22WG15.1061) liai", "D. J. Blackwood" wrote: > > I'd like to add to that that Adobe does not produce any PDF software for > my UNIX/POSIX platform and therefore I am unable to produce PDF files at > all for any price. I can read PDF files but the public domain reader is > very buggy (some documents I can only see page one) and it will not > print on my system. On the other hand I can easily produce, view, and > print PostScript files at zero additional expense. > > Of course I could always purchase a Wintel system or a more mainstream > Adobe-supported UNIX system but that kind of defeats the whole purpose > of a POSIX standard then, doesn't it? >-- End of excerpt from "D. J. Blackwood" To generalize your UNIX/POSIX platform to all is too much. Using Acrobat/XPDF (and did you try the latest xpdf 0.7) we now have coverage for 18 platforms. Using xpdf or acrobat it is possible to generate postscript. My vote is with PDF. See http://www.opengroup.org/public/acrobat.htm for a URL to the readers. If you're running a version of xpdf < 0.7 please update. regards Andrew