From dave@rc.gc.ca Wed Jul 23 02:22:08 1997 Received: from blackhole.rc.gc.ca (blackhole.rc.gc.ca [205.150.42.41]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id CAA23752 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 02:22:06 +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: (SC22WG15.1065) RE: liaison from WG9 Date: Tue, 22 Jul 97 20:14:35 EDT Message-ID: <9707222014.aa09200@hodgson.rc.gc.ca> > 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. Those of us who already have and are using ghostscript can say the same about PDF. Yes, I know PC users probably outnumber non-pc users but my interest in all this relates to POSIX and it somewhat concerns me that PC users are now driving the tools to be used in the development of non-PC standards. Its just one more step down that slippery road towards a single vendor view of the world. -- David J. Blackwood Manager, Internet Services Room 2169, 875 Heron Road Information Highway Initiatives Division Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0L5 Revenue Canada Voice: 613 957-9305 Fax: 613 941-2257 Internet: dave@rc.gc.ca