From Glen.Seeds@Cognos.COM Tue Jul 22 23:44:16 1997 Received: from internet-gw.cognos.com (gatekeeper.cognos.com [205.210.232.66]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id XAA19526 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 1997 23:44:14 +0200 Received: tid RAA26864; Tue, 22 Jul 1997 17:22:30 -0400 Received: by sotr0080.cognos.com with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) id ; Tue, 22 Jul 1997 17:23:02 -0400 Message-ID: <51C92EA8F4EBD01194F500805F31180E053E50@sotr0080.cognos.com> From: "Seeds, Glen" To: SC22WG15@dkuug.dk, ajosey@rdg.opengroup.org, baker@dad.cs.fsu.edu, wg15-uk@opengroup.org, "'D. J. Blackwood'" Subject: RE: (SC22WG15.1064) liaison from WG9 Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 17:23:01 -0400 X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) Content-Type: text/plain I agree with a lot of what has been said. A point that no-one has raised yet, though, is that PDF is easier for a lot of people to work with from the viewer end. For those of us that have PC's on our desks, there are lots of applications being delivered with PDF documentation today, and very few with PostScript documentation. As a resut, it's common for us to have the free Acrobat PDF viewer installed. We also likely have it installed as a plug-in for our WEB browser, which makes viewing a PDF link a one-step operation. GhostScript would be yet another thing on our already large and hard-to-manage set of applications. For these reasons, even though I'm not generally in favour of proprietary stuff, I would not be thrilled to see PDF deprecated. /glen > ---------- > From: D. J. Blackwood[SMTP:dave@rc.gc.ca] > Sent: July 22, 1997 3:53 PM > To: SC22WG15@dkuug.dk; ajosey@rdg.opengroup.org; > baker@dad.cs.fsu.edu; wg15-uk@opengroup.org > Subject: (SC22WG15.1064) liaison from WG9 > > > 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. >