-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 12:51:09 +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > > [...] > >> Can you point me to a link where I can get the source for PDF? The DRM >> information and all? IMO, Arcoread is just a marketing tool for Adobe >> so that people will buy Acrobat. Very similar to Wordpad (until >> recently) being able to read .doc files but not create them. Wordpad >> free, Word not. > > http://www.adobe.com/devnet/pdf/pdf_reference.html > > The specifications are in PDF format, of course... > >> Is postscript so bad that everyone needs pdf? No. The fact that PDF >> files are hard to edit is what makes them so popular in the business world. > > I think it was mostly the PDF compression which made it more attractive > than postscript as a format to exchange documents via the internet. >
Thanks for the link. Loading it now. It takes a while because their server is a little slow from here and it's a 31MB file. Reading that will keep me busy for a while. Joe - -- Registerd Linux user #443289 at http://counter.li.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF9pjkiXBCVWpc5J4RAnYQAJ4pWIc2wbLKeEB8nQpuYy/au0IMwACePas5 5Y0wBUYuwfeoE1Pj5kt6YOU= =9tV5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
