on Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 05:27:54PM +0100, Andras Simonyi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > (sorry for asking this here, but I'm curious about the opinions/infos) > > In the good old times I advocated using pdf against other proprietary > document-formats, because it is more-or less really portable (similar > look everywhere), the viewer is accessible on most platform, and there > are available tools for creating/converting (to) pdfs (pdflatex ps2pdf > etc.). No it seems that with Adobe, pdf became a Bad Thing (TM) as > well, and for instance in the document-equivalent of GPL (I cannot > recall the exact name) pdf is mentioned as an example of > non-transparent document-format as opposed to LaTex-source etc. > > My question: is there, or should not be then there a project to create > an _open_ format similar to pdf? I mean a real page-description > language, with the tools for converting from other formats etc.
PDF of itself is open and standard. It's a reasonable document presentation format (though I tend to prefer postscript). I'd strongly encourage you to use tools other than Adobe's proprietary products, fortunately there are many which can be used to produce PDFs. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free We freed Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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