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At 10:55 AM 98/12/14 , Hans Aberg wrote:

>Clearly the disadvantage with PDF is that it is a commercial product, and

The PDF file format is open.  Not proprietary.

The fact that Acrobat Distiller and Exchange are commercial means
that a lot of development are done on them on a contiuing basis.
It is hard to compete with that using time syphoned off from
sponsored research projects (so called `free' time).

>that it is somewhat too primitive to be used as a WWW-bytecode standard.

Regards, Berthold.

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