Hi Yaakov, I think my wording was clear: While I personally like PDF for many things, I find PDF to be a poor choice for IETF works-in-progress, or even for RFCs because they lack many of the characteristics that ASCII files offer. dbh > -----Original Message----- > From: Yaakov Stein [mailto:yaakov_s@xxxxxxx] > Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 7:42 AM > To: ietfdbh@xxxxxxxxxxx; John C Klensin; Marshall Eubanks > Cc: ietf@xxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: Alternative formats for IDs > > > > > While I personally like PDF for many things, I find PDF to be a poor > choice for IETF works-in-progress, > > or even for RFCs because they lack many of the characteristics that > ASCII files offer. > > Don't you mean that ASCII lacks many of the features PDF offers > (font faces, font styles, diagrams, etc. etc. etc.) ? > > The characteristic you apparently want, i.e. being easy to > plug into SW > that accepts only ASCII characters, is recovered by "text > selection" in > the PDF viewer. > > Y(J)S > _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf