In a message dated: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 20:53:01 EDT
Benjamin Scott said:
> As near as I could tell when I briefly looked into it, PDF is just some
>weird, bastardized form of PostScript targeted at a specialized renderer
>(i.e., Acrobat Reader). This was in the Acrobat 2.0 days, though, so things
>may well have changed since then.
This is probably not useful information, nor very germaine to the
topic, however...
One of the main differences between ps and pdf is that ps is a
Turing-complete language and pdf is not (which is why you can do
stupid things like write webservers in ps (http://www.pugo.org:8080/)
but not pdf :)
PDF is also not "printable", i.e., it must be converted to something
else before printing like ps, pcl, etc.
--
Seeya,
Paul
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