On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Dirk Laurie wrote:
> 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?
I can only speak for my own site at
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~tuben/scores. Before when I only had Postscript
files I usually got 2 letters each week from people having trouble with
the format. I have even received several phonecalls from desperate people
trying to install the correct software. Since I made PDF the default
format this summer I have not received one single letter with questions on
the format. I still provide Postscript files also, but the downloads are
outnumbered by PDF by 500:1. Also, the traffic has increased a lot.
If it only were for our archive, the fact that very few Windows[1]
machines come with preinstalled Ghostscript OR Acrobat could make it an
open question which format to use, but since so much other documents are
available in PDF and not in Postscript the chance that a computer can read
PDF is much much higher. When they come to our archive they have already
installed Acrobat because of a need to read some other PDF documents.
[1] Even though I (and many people on this list) use Linux, my "customers"
don't. A quick search for Windows and Linux in my logs revealed a ratio of
between 50:1 and 100:1.
/Johan Tufvesson
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