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- From: cewyatt@cew.com (C. E. Wyatt)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: PS vs PDF -- was: are USR Couriers really a superior modem?
- Date: 19 Mar 1996 05:21:29 GMT
- Organization: MindSpring Enterprises
- Message-ID: <4ilg8p$sta@B1FF.mindspring.com>
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- In message <pumaDoHBIG.MFt@netcom.com> - puma@netcom.com (Gary Breuckman)
- writes:
- --
- --In article <4ibpsc$j7e@b1ff.mindspring.com>,
- --C. E. Wyatt <cewyatt@cew.com> wrote:
- -->In message <4ia9p9$2b2e@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com> - davidsen@tmr.com (bill
- -->davidsen)14 Mar 1996 23:23:21 GMT writes:
- -->--Wow, I didn't know that. Which vendors sell acrobat printers? All I
- -->--have is PCL and PostScript.
- -->
- -->Duh! Acrobat is a utility application freely distributed by Adobe that
- allows
- -->you to view PDF files on your computer system. PDF files allow a document
- to
- --
- --
- --Sarcasm is lost on some people, huh CE.
-
- No, I can fully recognize sarcasm. I can also recognize idiocy, which is all
- too prevelent on the 'net these days.
-
- --The point is, it's much easier to print Postscript especially if you have
- --the correct printer. If you don't you can still view and print it with
- --Ghostscript. Why invent yet another format especially if there AREN'T
- --any printers to print it directly.
-
- My point is that PDF was developed SPECIFICALLY to be cross-platform, a
- Portable Document Format. Of course, if you have a postscript printer, a
- postscript document would be the obvious choice. But relatively few people
- have postscript-enabled printers. Also, PDF documents tend to be MUCH smaller
- than corresponding postscript files. On several IBM sites, they provide the
- same documentation in both PDF and Postscript. The PDF files are generally a
- third the size, which is definitely a plus for transmitting across the 'net.
- Ghostscript is just not a reliable tool. If it were, I'd be all for it,
- however, the implementations of it have been bug-plagued and inaccurate. I
- have yet to see Ghostscript display a document EXACTLY as it is to be printed
- (natively). In that, I mean format and print a doc to a postscript printer,
- then display the doc using Ghostscript. The alignments are not accurate and
- even some of the fonts are incorrect. This has been my experience. Also,
- Ghostscript for OS/2 is severely bug-ridden, at least the latest version,
- which I've tried, along with GhostView.
-
- Adobe, one of the largest Postscript developers in the world, obviously
- doesn't see postscript as the be-all of document portability. That's why they
- developed PDF and Acrobat.
-
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- "Imagine there's no heaven. It isn't hard to do. No Hell below
- us. No religion, too."
-
- -- John Lennon
-
-
- C. E. Wyatt
- Atlanta, Georgia
- cewyatt@cew.com
- http://www.cew.com/~cewyatt
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