LINUX/GNU Tutorials
Jerry A Clabaugh
JerryC at world.std.com
Thu Mar 23 16:46:20 EST 2000
Just yesterday I was expressing my lack of enthusiasm for PDF to
a co-worker. He assured me that PDF's are much smaller than PS's,
and therefore better for downloading and e-mailing.
On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, John Abreau wrote:
> linuxguy at ici.net writes:
>
> > http://www.linuxsoup.com/__Presentations
> >
> > Notes are available in DVI format and in HTML. Is there any preference on
> > PDF vs. PS vs. DVI?
>
> Personally, I'e never seen the big attraction of PDF. I view PDF as Adobe's
> overreaction to the commoditization of Postscript, which is more of an
> open standard.
>
> On the other hand, the Acrobat reader is somewhat more feature-rich than
> ghostview or gv. I guess it's a toss-up between pdf and postscript.
>
>
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