X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1536" "Mon" "14" "December" "1998" "16:55:25" "+0100" "Hans Aberg" "haberg@MATEMATIK.SU.SE" nil "39" "Re: portable LaTeX" "^Date:" nil nil "12" nil "portable LaTeX" nil nil nil] nil) Received: from listserv.gmd.de (listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.1]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA32414; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 16:55:36 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <0.075A5752@listserv.gmd.de>; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 16:55:33 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 413361 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 16:55:29 +0100 Received: from mail0.nada.kth.se (mail0.nada.kth.se [130.237.222.70]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA20327 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 16:55:27 +0100 (MET) Received: from [130.237.37.57] (sl63.modempool.kth.se [130.237.37.83]) by mail0.nada.kth.se (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA13520 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 16:55:24 +0100 (MET) X-Sender: su95-hab@mail.nada.kth.se References: <13938.39518.68424.927988@fell.open.ac.uk> <199812092035.VAA16014@na6.mathematik.uni-tuebingen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-ID: Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <13941.7255.489674.140731@srahtz> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 16:55:25 +0100 From: Hans Aberg Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: portable LaTeX Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 3103 At 14:10 +0000 1998/12/14, Sebastian Rahtz wrote: >do you really want to open this can of worms? :-} Here we go... :-) >many people will reply that "xdvi is the best viewer I know" or "i can't get >acrobat for my platform". but are those "advantages of dvi" I think that Netscape comes with a PDF plugin, for inline PDF displays. At 08:54 -0600 1998/12/14, Randolph J. Herber wrote: >If one remains with the almost universal Apple LaserWriter basic 13 fonts >and the TeX bitmapped fonts, then the files are more portable than when >Adobe PDF is used. I do not think one is required to include the fonts in PDF; at XXX, one can even choose what fonts one wants to use (Mac PS CM or regular CM). >An Adobe PDF can not be repaired readily with the >usual UNIX command line tools; most Adobe PostScript files can be repaired >by such means.. I think there is a binary PS, too, which would be as difficult to repair as any other binary format... At 08:57 -0600 1998/12/14, Randolph J. Herber wrote: >|...my .tex files compile into PDF, thanks... >Address that problem by using dvips and then ps2pdf, or dvipdf, if it exists. This does not work with embedded links. Clearly the disadvantage with PDF is that it is a commercial product, and that it is somewhat too primitive to be used as a WWW-bytecode standard. Hans Aberg * Email: Hans Aberg * Home Page: * AMS member listing: