I agree with this. I suppose, someone with unix must be smart enough to work with any system of document output.
On the other hand on windows (98 and more), with winzip and gsview, its very easy for using postscript (winzip solves the .ps.gz construction automatically). Acrobat viewer in my case however is to big ( it takes a lot of time to display, the system crashed when other programs are running etc.) It is also easy to help people who download with installing gsview, as did Werner Icking. Andre who is willingly (converted all ps to pdf with the help of Christian) but prefer postscript. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dirk Laurie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'mutex'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 9:56 AM Subject: [TeX-music] PDF: a dissident view > 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 > _______________________________________________ > TeX-music mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music > _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
