On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Tue, Feb 25, 2003, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote about "Re: Software design document": > > > is the conversion to pdf is easy, with no faults? > > > > Yes. Let me know if you want to see my LaTeX makefile, which is based > > on Oleg's. Also, make sure to follow the advice at > > http://www.advogato.org/person/ladypine/diary.html?start=37 for > > producing a valid pdf. > > Or, you might say "Hey, Adobe, you got it right the first time around!" > and just use Postscript. > > Say no to helping Windows-users stay with Windows! [1] >
I hope this is a joke! 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. 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. That put aside - I believe Adobe created PDF from a good reason, despite the fact that PostScript was at its time a cutting-edge achievement. You yourself said that accessing the i'th page is O(i) in PostScript while O(1) in PDF. And PDF has hyperlinks and other cute bells and whistles, which PostScript does not support. > [1] http://www.fefe.de/nowindows/ > Interesting link, which I completely don't agree with. If I can get the software I write to run on Windows and other non-UNIX platforms without too much overhead, I will try to do so. While the latest version of Quad-Pres can only run on UNIX (partly because I'm using WML), I believe all my other software is compatible with Windows. To quote someone I read, the issue is not Windows vs. Linux. The issue is free software vs. non-free one. Foribly preventing people from running free software on Windows just to make a point, will actually prevent them from experiencing with free software, and later on deciding that Linux may be worth a try. Luckily, a lot of open-source developers out there don't ostracize Windows in such a way. Regards, Shlomi Fish > -- > Nadav Har'El | Wednesday, Feb 26 2003, 24 Adar I 5763 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- > Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |Ihave a great signature, but it won't > http://nadav.harel.org.il |fit at the end of this message -- Fermat > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > theword "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://t2.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/ There's no point in keeping an idea to yourself since there's a 10 to 1 chance that somebody already has it and will share it before you. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
