From keld  Wed Jul 23 11:47:32 1997
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From: keld@dkuug.dk (Keld J|rn Simonsen)
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 11:47:31 +0200
In-Reply-To: ajosey@rdg.opengroup.org (Andrew Josey)
       "(SC22WG15.1067) RE: liaison from WG9" (Jul 23, 10:11)
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To: ajosey@rdg.opengroup.org (Andrew Josey), "D. J. Blackwood" <dave@rc.gc.ca>,
        SC22WG15@dkuug.dk, baker@dad.cs.fsu.edu, wg15-uk@opengroup.org
Subject: Re: (SC22WG15.1067) RE: liaison from WG9

Andrew Josey writes:

> 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.

I would appreciate if all docs as far as possible could be
sent in plain text. Most information in WG15 travels well in
flat ASCII. Only files with graphics should be sent
in other formats. 

Keld