X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["963" "Mon" "14" "December" "1998" "16:57:57" "+0000" "Timothy Murphy" "tim@MATHS.TCD.IE" nil "28" "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 RAA12487; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 17:58:05 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <13.C2706280@listserv.gmd.de>; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 17:58:03 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 413443 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 17:57:58 +0100 Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (mmdf@salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA26284 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 17:57:57 +0100 (MET) Received: from boole.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 14 Dec 98 16:57:58 +0000 (GMT) References: <13938.39518.68424.927988@fell.open.ac.uk> <199812092035.VAA16014@na6.mathematik.uni-tuebingen.de> <199812141454.IAA15507@dcdrjh.fnal.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i Message-ID: <19981214165757.C29182@maths.tcd.ie> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <199812141454.IAA15507@dcdrjh.fnal.gov>; from Randolph J. Herber on Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 08:54:45AM -0600 Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 16:57:57 +0000 From: Timothy Murphy 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: 3106 On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 08:54:45AM -0600, Randolph J. Herber wrote: > Primarily Adobe PostScript PDF is a method of Adobe, Inc., to reduce Adobe's > problems with thief for their fonts which is quite easy to do if the fonts > are included within an Adobe PostScript file. I don't think that is the primary motivation for PDF, and I'm not sure if it is true anyway. Adobe has published the encryption/decryption algorithms for PFB font files. To my mind, the fundamental point about PDF (as opposed to PostScript) is that it is object-oriented, a PDF document consisting essentially of a collection of PDF objects. > 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. This isn't much use for maths, of course. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland