Well, this is all speculation on my part, of course. But, first, I am talking about EPS not PDF. I can make PDFs.
Even if a Microsoft competitor to EPS were only as successful as WMA vs. MP3 that would be fine with me. After all, I can make a WMA and send it to just about anyone in the world and they can play it. I cannot even make an EPS. Richard > I'm actually kind of skeptical about that. I think that PDF is too > well-established as a universal standard at this point. I think MS's > attempt to impose their own proprietary alternative to PDF will go > about as well as their attempt to impose WMA as an alternative to MP3 > (i.e., not a complete failure, but far, far short of MS's goals). > > I am not as optimistic as you about Longhorn forcing any 'spill over' > > into > > EPS. However, if Microsoft decides to produce a competitor format to > > EPS > > then it may quickly overtake Adobe, and then the new format will be a > > common > > enough standard to _replace_ EPS purposes for us FinWin users. > > > > Richard Yates _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
