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