On Saturday 05 April 2003 11:42 am, you wrote:
> I thought PDF was a read-only format (correct me if I am wrong)
nope. depends on the access priviliges you grant, while creating the PDF.
> For pre-press quality printing. The best known tool is TEX almost all the
> Mathematics books actually use TEX/Latex a [snip]
this is a stereotypical confusion about PDF. PDF is just a file format. a
container. acrobat is the technology. you can 'generate' or 'create' your
document anywhere, from autocad, excel, accounting packages, sophisticated
page layout software, web server utilities, to whatever else you like.
acrobat and its competitors, merely create a PDF file outta your document.
acrobat does not attempt to be an autocad or a TeX engine or even KiLE.
hence, you can give your document as much sophistication or aesthetic beauty
or both, as the original software.
TeX outputted in PDF is an awesome combination. nitrogen meets glycerine.
>
> If you wish to publish online then use XML/XHTML not PDF. Search google for
> why XHTML should be used over PDF anytime anywhere.
the real world of publishing can only survive with concurrent publishing
formats. XML, XHTML, PDF, TeX, all *together* are required. incidentally,
even acrobat 5 and above support outputting a PDF file to XML, RTF, Text
only, JPEG, and several other formats.
:-)
LL
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