At 08:20 PM 12/20/2001 -0500, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
>WMF may be more popular than EPS, that I grant.

         Depends on the market you are targetting ;).


>But in the business world vector
>drawings are definitely preferred to raster images, especially for
>printing.

         Of course!


>And CMYK vs. ICC cs. RGBA is meaningless on a monochrome laser.  Resolution
>is where it's at.

         Agreed.


>.EPS has the rather strong advantage of translating in vector format
>all the way to the printer.

         ONLY if you have a Postscript printer!  If you have a raster, PCL 
or other type of printer, then EPS ends up getting rasterized early on.


>It's also just about the simplest possible
>import format to deal with.  The WP must select the frame size and
>position, that's it.  The postscript just gets translated and shipped
>on out.  No scaling, no preview, no nothin' needed.  It's all the printer's
>problem.

         ONLY if you have a Postscript printer...


LDR


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