Hi Roy.

01-Nov-03 12:06:31, Roy J. Tellason wrote to Tom Walker


 RJT> Tom Walker wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 RJT> ->  TW> BUT it is the Only Game i ntown for that job.

 RJT> -> Why?

 TW>> Partialy Tradition and partialy becasue Adobe offers a FREE
 TW>> Reader.

 RJT> Yeah,  but you gotta run _their_ software,  on a platform that
 RJT> _they_ are okay with supporting.  Yeah there's a dos version out
 RJT> there,  but it's only gone as far as version 1,  and won't go any
 RJT> further,  which means that it won't deal with a number of the
 RJT> files that I've tried it on.  I like open source and standard
 RJT> approaches to stuff anyway

xpdf and ghostview  can read'm ok.

 RJT> No reason to introduce any more standards,  just use one of the
 RJT> ones that's already out there.  I don't see a problem with HTML
 RJT> and gif/jpeg,  for one example,  and I'm sure it would be a whole
 RJT> lot less bloated

PDF is intended as a binary representation of a paper document
HTML isn't

 -=> Bye <=-

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