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Just yesterday I was expressing my lack of enthusiasm for PDF to
a co-worker.  He assured me that PDF's are much smaller than PS's,
and therefore better for downloading and e-mailing.

On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, John Abreau wrote:

> linuxguy at ici.net writes:
> 
> > http://www.linuxsoup.com/__Presentations
> > 
> > Notes are available in DVI format and in HTML.  Is there any preference on
> > PDF vs. PS vs. DVI?
> 
> Personally, I'e never seen the big attraction of PDF. I view PDF as Adobe's
> overreaction to the commoditization of Postscript, which is more of an
> open standard. 
> 
> On the other hand, the Acrobat reader is somewhat more feature-rich than
> ghostview or gv. I guess it's a toss-up between pdf and postscript.
> 
> 
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