From maine@linux.dfrc.nasa.gov Wed Nov 24 21:36:29 1999 Received: from mailhub.dfrc.nasa.gov (mailhub.dfrc.nasa.gov [130.134.81.12]) by dkuug.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id VAA68093 for ; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 21:36:23 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from maine@linux.dfrc.nasa.gov) Received: from mail.dfrc.nasa.gov by mailhub.dfrc.nasa.gov with ESMTP; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 12:33:49 -0800 Received: from linux.dfrc.nasa.gov ([130.134.129.141]) by mail.dfrc.nasa.gov (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 release (PO203-101c) ID# 103-49741U1500L100S0) with ESMTP id AAA22900 for ; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 12:38:40 -0800 Received: (from maine@localhost) by linux.dfrc.nasa.gov (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA05985; Thu, 25 Nov 1999 12:36:35 -0800 From: Richard Maine MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <14397.40403.818468.745215@linux.dfrc.nasa.gov> Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 12:36:35 -0800 (PST) To: SC22WG5@dkuug.dk Subject: Re: Structure of the WG5 archive In-Reply-To: <199911241958.UAA68040@dkuug.dk> References: <199911241610.RAA67568@dkuug.dk> <199911241958.UAA68040@dkuug.dk> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 7) "Biscayne" XEmacs Lucid Lawrie Schonfelder writes: > I for one would be much happier with pdf than postscript. It is smaller and > can be more easily displayed as well as printed on a variety of platforms and > printers. "More easily" varies. Its much more easy for me to display and print postscript. Most of my printers take postscript natively (and the drivers are set up to convert it automatically for the one at home that doesn't). And I have several nice display viewers. Plus I have tools that manipulate postscript to print it in various custom ways. I've never had a printer that takes pdf, so I need to convert it to postscript to print. Last time I tried that I had problems, though I could probably work them out given time. I don't particularly like the interface of either of the 2 pdf readers I have. Like Stan, I'll get by. I prefer ps, but if we go to pdf I'm sure I'll manage. But pdf is definitely not easier for me; obviously it is for at least Lawrie, and he's probably not alone. But don't assume that "easier" is the same for everyone. -- Richard Maine maine@altair.dfrc.nasa.gov