From dave@rc.gc.ca Tue Jul 22 22:01:32 1997 Received: from ratatosk.DK.net (root@ratatosk.DK.net [193.88.44.22]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id WAA18041 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 1997 22:01:31 +0200 Received: from blackhole.rc.gc.ca (blackhole.rc.gc.ca [205.150.42.41]) by ratatosk.DK.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id WAA09029 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 1997 22:01:28 +0200 From: "D. J. Blackwood" X-Mailer: SCO System V Mail (version 3.2) To: SC22WG15@dkuug.dk, ajosey@rdg.opengroup.org, baker@dad.cs.fsu.edu, wg15-uk@opengroup.org Subject: Re: (SC22WG15.1061) liaison from WG9 Date: Tue, 22 Jul 97 15:53:42 EDT Message-ID: <9707221553.aa05957@hodgson.rc.gc.ca> > 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 Thanks. 0.7 is a substantial improvement over 0.3 and it even compiled with relative ease. (I've yet to fully test it with a wide variety of pdf files however.) But my vote is still to retain PostScript over PDF as a preferred format. It's just more portable and more versatile in terms of the platforms and devices that can turn it into something usable. And of course PDF users can always turn PostScript into PDF if they want to.