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On Sunday 21 July 2002 04:04 pm, der.hans wrote:
> Am 21. Jul, 2002 schwätzte Lee Einer so:
> > format. PDF documents can probably be read by everyone on the list,
> > but I realize that not everybody is able to write to PDF format, which

I believe everything out there writes to postscript files, which can then be 
converted using ps2pdf.  If you are using a KDE application (and many 
others), then you print the files directly to PDF with no intermediate step.

> PDF is almost, but not quite, an open format. While we might want to
> encourage other orgs to use it ( if it's functional ), I don't think we
> want to use it as there are better alternatives.

I personally have no problem with PDF.  In fact, I generally run pdflatex to 
convert my documents as I know I should be able to print them on any machine.  
However, the PDF viewers that I tend to use (with the exception of gv, which 
doesn't support encrypted PDF) don't really have that level of polish that I 
have come to expect.

However, I would like ask what the better alternatives are.  (I know about DVI 
and postscript, but I wouldn't call either a "universal" format.)  I'm sure 
it is something really stupid that I simply glancing over (like JPEG). :-P

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