On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 08:33:08AM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote:

> If you send it to your boss, while telling him that, you might get
> fired. The first document I prepared with LaTeX (an English one) I sent to a
> TAU education professor in PostScript format. He told me he cannot read
> PS and asked for the _MS Word Original_. I ended up ps2pdf'ing it, which
> satisfied him.

Did you send him a free clue with it? several technion professors
*refuse* to accept Word documents, due to the inherent virus risk. 

> Seriously, while PDF is not a panacea for many Windows kiddies who only
> know of Word, it is still much more accesible than PostScript. Sending a
> document to a Windows guy in PS format is like sending a document to a
> UNIX guy in Word format. Not a nice thing to do.

I disagree. Unless PDF comes by default on windows nowday, installing
a postscript viewer should be no more and no less complicated than
installing a PDF viewer. 
-- 
Muli Ben-Yehuda
http://www.mulix.org

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