On 10-Dec-99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>> Please, not PDF. Not everyone has PDF capabilities. Perhaps ASCII,
>> or RTF
>>> if you need formatting, many word processors accept RTF.
>>
>> Please, not RTF. Not everyone has RTF capabilities. (I for one
>> haven't
>> found an editor on Linux that understood RTF _AND_ was worth having
>> around.)
>> How about Postscript, then? Or just the all-in-one-html?
>
> RTF is junk, sigh. :-)))
> 1) So, pdf is OK, it's small, efficient, and while maybe proprietary,
> still the output is very nice. btw I think .pdf is regarded being
> standard now. We had problem when we published our company economical
> results in .pdf, as one manager told us - hey, what's that .pdf, I
> want .doc. So we translated it back to doc and let him download it via
> the slow modem connection. Well, .pdf is back on our site ;-)
>
> 2) HTML is also OK.
>
> 3) We have REBOL, with nice expressibility. Let's see what REBOL/Media
> is about to bring and maybe we can introduce own document rendering
> mechanisms? Just a thought ...
Either PDF or Postscript are ideal for those of us who have PostScript
pronters.
RTF can be imported into PageStream quite successfully, but PDF or
PostScript will print exactly as the author intended.
Regards
--
Don Cox
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
