Right. But that binary is generated from postscript, at some level,
which has a well defined textual structure (it's actually a
programming language). You'd have to run that
postscript through a post-processor to get the PDF, but I don't see
why it can't be done. RTF is also textual.
Word on the other hand is a proprietary binary moving target. It
changes with every release, and you have to pay money to read
the spec (or so I think).
Just so this has something to do with servlets still: You could
ecen return it dynamically from a servlet via the right content
type line, though with PDF, performance would be non-existant.
I don't think you could do any better turning XML into PDF
on the fly.
Justin
Quoting Carlos Amengual ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Justin Wells wrote:
> >
> > underlying text is. Word is binary, but RTF and PDF are just text.
>
> A snippet from one of my PDFs: M ˰#$ �X ��1���s
>
> Carlos
>
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