Much of the traffic on this list in the last month or two has
been concerned with the joys of Type-1 fonts and the woes of
their imperfections, especially when creating PDF documents.

I have sympathy with the desire to standardize on something,
and I accept that the archive also contains documents not
produced using MusiXTeX, which rules out the DVI format as
a universal standard. 
 
Nevertheless, "if it ain't broken don't fix it."  Of all the
viewers I have for documents, the DVI viewer looks best on
my screen when viewing TeX-produced documents.  Next best is
Ghostview.  Last is Acrobat Reader.

Now Ghostview is just as freely available from the exact same
company as Acrobat Reader.  The only defect of the Postscript
format versus PDF as far as I can see, is that some minimal 
installations of Windows 9x don't have Ghostview, but might 
(only might) have Acrobat Reader.  If we do need to cater to 
those who don't have TeX, why can't we stick with Postscript?

Dirk
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