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Hi Daniel, |
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on Monday, 2005-10-24 at 11:33:47, you wrote: |
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> Take a look at this... PDF is the proprietary modification of ps, |
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> added some tags and some compression (that can easily be repeated with |
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> lots of advantages in any compressor). And, well, read for yourself. |
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This is obviously a few years old; the guy still has a point about |
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ergonomics but I don't have any problems with PDF files on Linux today. |
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The huge advantage PDF has over PS that it's searchable and accomodates |
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bitmap graphics with decent compression. Put a 300dpi A5-size JPEG into |
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a TeX document and run it through pdfTeX---and then convert it to PS... |
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For something that prints nicely and is still accessible, there is just |
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no usable alternative. |
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regards |
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Matthias |
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