From ajosey@rdg.opengroup.org Wed Jul 23 10:43:54 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 KAA29619 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 10:43:41 +0200 Received: from mailgate.rdg.opengroup.org (mailgate.rdg.opengroup.org [192.153.166.4]) by ratatosk.DK.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA14637 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 10:43:35 +0200 Received: by mailgate.rdg.opengroup.org; id AA17008; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 09:43:18 GMT Message-Id: <9707230943.AA17008@mailgate.rdg.opengroup.org> Received: by mailhome.rdg.opengroup.org (1.36.108.10/16.2) id AA17449; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 09:33:29 +0100 From: ajosey@rdg.opengroup.org (Andrew Josey) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 09:33:29 +0100 In-Reply-To: "D. J. Blackwood"'s message as of Jul 22, 8:14pm. 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, ajosey@rdg.opengroup.org, baker@dad.cs.fsu.edu, wg15-uk@opengroup.org Subject: Re: (SC22WG15.1065) RE: liaison from WG9 On Jul 22, 8:14pm in "Re: (SC22WG15.1065) ", "D. J. Blackwood" wrote: > 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. I'm sure we don't want to drag this discussion out too far :-) a comprimise would be to distribute in both formats -or better still to send out notifications and then allow folks to pull the document in their desired format on demand. As a UNIX system user I'm happy to use PDF, i don't see that this as PC specific - that would be Word format - its a document format that is more flexible than postscript. As a large document developer we have found that PDF allows us to do all of our drafting using electronic documents quite successfully, indeed the xpdf author was quite amazed to hear our reports of regularly using it for reviewing documents of 1200 pages or more. regards Andrew