Re: Documents on the website/Postscript

["K Strauss" <kstrauss@legendcomm.com>]

If it is of any help, I'm happy to convert Postscript documents to PDF and
upload them to your site and/or leave them on the ftp server here for you to
grab.

Adobe Acrobat Reader (the software to display/print a PDF) is a free
download from http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html There are
free versions for Windows, Mac, Linux, AIX, SunOS, Solaris, etc.


-----Original Message-----
From: Herbert R Johnson <hjohnson@pluto.njcc.com>
To: tass@wwa.com <tass@wwa.com>
Date: Wednesday, January 14, 1998 4:05 PM
Subject: Re: Documents on the website/Postscript


>On Tue, 13 Jan 1998 18:16:16 -0800, Chris Albertson
<chris@topdog.pas1.logicon.com> wrote:
>*>K Strauss wrote:
>*>>
>*>> How about putting PDF versions of documents such as this on the web
site?
>*>> That way those without PostScript printers could view/print. PDF files
are
>*>> somewhat larger than ASCII (this file is 317K or 200K when zipped) but
>*>> retain all equations, illustrations, etc.
>*>>
>*>
>*>See: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/aladdin/get510.html
>*>
>*>They have Ghostscript for VAX, UNIX, OS/2, MS-DOS, MS-Windows &
>*>Macintosh.  With this you will have ability to view and print
>*>Postscript.
>
>*>--Chris Albertson
>
>Some time ago I downloaded and installed the MS-Windows (3.1) version of
>this product and I've been very happy with it. I also have Version 3.0
>of the Adobe PDF viewer for Win 3.1 with Netscape plugin, and it works
>well too. However, while you need a proprietary and commercial program to
create
>PDF files, PostScript output is available from many programs. Postscript
>has a long history of association with print publications, while
>PDF is a recent Web base standard. Given the genesis of the document
>in question, Postscript and maybe flat text are reasonable formats.
>
>And it is no small task to perform document conversions arbitrarily:
>it would be more reasonable for those who read the documents to graciously
>offer to do the conversions as their abilities and interests suggest.
>
>Herb Johnson
>
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