On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Ira Abramov wrote: > Quoting Muli Ben-Yehuda, from the post of Wed, 26 Feb: > > > > > 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. > > why do you even compare the two? PDF is a presentation format, Word is > editable, scriptable source, for starters. >
I compared the two because PostScript is not standard on Windows system, and Word is not standard on UNIX systems. You are right that they are very different in concept. > Both are proprietary though (Ask Sklyarov). > Skylarov was arrested for circumventing the Adobe eBook format, which is a proprietary and undocumented way of scrambling a PDF. Otherwise, PDF is fully documented, and a full documentation for it is available on the Adobe site. Whether it makes it proprietary or not, is left for the interpretation of the beholder. > > 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. > > well, due to a very good marketing campaign, many people recognize the > .pdf extension, almost as many as those who recognize .html. however .ps > is rarely recognized outside the Unix/Mac user domain. It may be easy to > install, if people knew about it. > Agreed > And shlofmi said: > > > [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 becauseI'm using > > WML), I believe all my other software is compatible with Windows. > > I Agree in full. > Felix has a twisted view on what software freedom is (it seems like a > lot of his page is full of DJB's stuff. While I agree it's great > software, it's not free, and I ache for a GPL replacement) > > Asking for people not to port software to windows is rediculous. I see > the idea of porting Free Software everywhere as the best thing to do. > you flood windows users with a Free environment, they will get used to > it, and finally switching the kernel will not be fealt. BillG will call > us Viral for saying that, but it's the Utopia I dream of :) > Agreed again. Regards, Shlomi Fish > -- > Big fish in a small pond > Ira Abramov > > http://ira.abramov.org/email/ This post is encrypted twice with ROT-13. > Documenting or attempting to crack this encryption is illegal. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
