-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Smruti <[email protected]>
> But PDF is a widely used format for document publishing. If we bring another > format into the public domain we will also be requiring a huge awareness > campaign for this. > > I understand playing catch up might be hard..but at the same time giving too The pdf format specs is huge. Even Adobe does not care to implement all of it in its applications. It is basically a question of selecting an appropriate subset (for implementation)... not playing catch. > many options to the end-user and finally ending up with a dozzen of > different formats won't also do any good. That should not be a problem, provided they are free and open. DJVU is a very advanced format with over twenty years of evolution. See http://djvu.org/resources/ ... it has plenty of advantages over pdf. >Let's not forget, all that an > end-user wants is her/his document to be published in a readable format. So, > let's not confuse them any further then they already are... That is not meaningful in any sense. Is your 'end-user' an idiot? Best A. Mani -- A. Mani Member, Cal. Math. Soc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkm/wycACgkQunMISzvdfU4mYgCdHmKjXcv5gjLiUyGmmcGX071/ 4XwAnj4dMOzeyttNDIW0VSaUduhKv3m9 =Ltip -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
