Anthony G. Atkielski wrote:
> The advantage of PDF is that it preserves the exact
> appearance of the original document,
For thoe who want this that's nice as far as it works,
but I'm generally more interested in the _content_ and
not style or layout. And I don't want to print it, I
want to read it. In a GUI or text mode window with
the dimensions selected by me.
> PDF readers of some kind are available for just about
> every conceivable platform, and they all work extremely
> well.
This is not the case. Last DOS version I've seen was
AcroDos 1, last available OS/2 version was AcroRead 3.
With PDF I'd guess that my chances are about 50%, for
PS it's more like 90%, for HTML minus JS/CSS/flash etc.
it's 99%, and for US ASCII it's of course 100%. Dito
for Latin-1 or windows-1252, but I disgress.
> the printing industry long ago adopted PDF (and PDF
> was designed for that industry).
IIRC that _was_ also the initial idea of SGML.
> HTML may look nothing like the author intended.
Now if the author is more interested in his layout than
readability and accesibility, let alone transport costs,
then he's obviously stupid.
> I don't need fancy formatting in e-mail.
I don't need "1:1 printability", as long as I can read
it it's fine from my POV.
> If I truly wish to send something that is nicely
> formatted, I send PDF.
Version history popstop.cmd 1.7:
| Added JV to MAGIC(), binary starts with %PDF or similar
> They are mostly geeks, with a poor grasp of the
> real world of end users
It was only a spammer trying PDF because it offers links
not found by SpamCop's parser.
Bye, Frank
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