[aclug-L] Re: PDFs?

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Windows certianly can read PS files... with ghostview... or if you have a PS
printer, just by printing directly to the printer. 

Windows can easily create PS files, too :-)

On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 11:10:07AM -0500, Michael Holmes wrote:
> 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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