X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1105" "Sat" "19" "December" "1998" "08:49:18" "-0500" "Y&Y Inc." "support@YANDY.COM" nil "27" "Re: pdf and ps portable LaTeX" "^Date:" nil nil "12" nil nil 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 OAA10658; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 14:53:12 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <2.C2FCF7F0@listserv.gmd.de>; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 14:53:11 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 413325 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 14:53:08 +0100 Received: from mail-out-0.tiac.net (mail-out-0.tiac.net [199.0.65.247]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA25639 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 14:53:04 +0100 (MET) Received: from mail-out-2.tiac.net (mail-out-2.tiac.net [199.0.65.13]) by mail-out-0.tiac.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA05825 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 08:52:28 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from support@YandY.com) Received: from yandy (p21.tc1.metro.MA.tiac.com [209.61.75.22]) by mail-out-2.tiac.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id DAA15302 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 03:52:39 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from support@YandY.com) X-Sender: yandy@pop.tiac.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 References: <13943.35834.346967.222803@srahtz> <13938.39518.68424.927988@fell.open.ac.uk> <199812092035.VAA16014@na6.mathematik.uni-tuebingen.de> <13941.7255.489674.140731@srahtz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-ID: <4.1.19981219084609.00a8fc60@pop.tiac.net> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 08:49:18 -0500 From: "Y&Y Inc." Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: pdf and ps portable LaTeX Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 3208 At 04:15 PM 12/16/98 +0100, Hans Aberg wrote: >Otherwise, I think it is great that Acrobat Reader and part of use of PDF >are for free -- I wrote to an Adobe executive in the days they were not and >told him they would make more money that by changing that, and he responded >that is was a great idea, and after that they changed it. Wow! I am impressed! You know, those damn fools won't even answer my phone calls :-) >>no. with pdfTeX you can get direct access to PDF as you >>compose the TeX. an obvious example where pdftex is needed is >>to allow breaking of links across lines and pages - theoretically >>possibly in a dvi->ps->pdf, but I havent seen anyone do it. >These are kind of examples that I am looking: One should work directly with >an enhanced DVI, so that one does not get dependant on a long chain of fixes. It would be nice if TeX supported color the same way it does fonts also. Y&Y, Inc. phone: (508) 371-3286 fax: (508) 371-2004 (USA) mailto:support@YandY.com mailto:sales@YandY.com http://www.YandY.com http://www.YandY.com/unique.htm