[aclug-L] Re: PDFs?

[Michael Holmes <maholmes@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> Postscript is probably the easiest to make format, and probably also the
> most uniformly used.  It is, IMO, superior to PDF simply b/c it's more
> "standard".  
I thought windoZ could not read ps files?  And most windoz users will not be
able to convert the gzip format.   I think win zip reads gzip, but most will
not recognize the format, and know what has to be done to read it.

 PDF files, however, in my experience, are often smaller than
> .ps files... but if you compress a .ps file with gzip or zip, it won't be
> mmuch larger anyway.
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 05:57:48PM -0500, The Kurgan wrote:
> > 
> > Hey. I ran into a snag and wondered if anyone knew if Adobe makes a
> > PDF encoder/creator (whatever the heck it's called) for linux? If not,
> > does anyone know of a good alternative, perhaps a cross-platform type?
> > I'm working on a project to archive a lot of materials (color scans,
> > hopefully as small as typical PDFs) and one of the contributors is a
> > linux user and doesn't know what program is best for him to scan the
> > stuff, and the end results will be placed on a web page for both
> > windoze users and linux, so it needs to be a universally readable
> > solution. Any suggestions are very much appreciated. Thanks.
> > 
> > 
> > Kurgan                       mailto:Kurgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > 
> > 
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