X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1156" "Sat" "19" "December" "1998" "16:24:32" "+0100" "Hans Aberg" "haberg@MATEMATIK.SU.SE" nil "23" "Re: pdf and ps portable LaTeX" "^Date:" nil nil "12" nil "pdf and ps 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 QAA25093; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 16:30:38 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <0.5ECAC9DE@listserv.gmd.de>; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 16:30:36 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 413383 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 16:30:02 +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 QAA28228 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 16:30:00 +0100 (MET) Received: from [130.237.37.145] (sl43.modempool.kth.se [130.237.37.63]) by mail0.nada.kth.se (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA19316 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 16:29:58 +0100 (MET) X-Sender: su95-hab@mail.nada.kth.se 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: Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981219084609.00a8fc60@pop.tiac.net> Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 16:24:32 +0100 From: Hans Aberg 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: 3211 At 08:49 -0500 1998/12/19, Y&Y Inc. 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 :-) In my experience, executives on companies like Apple, and perhaps Adobe then too, that reply often quickly move to another company. I also know that the developers ARNS, which was intended to be integrated with the MacOS, also could not get replies from Apple. So it is perhaps the same thing with Adobe, too. So unless PDF is considered as a finished product that never will change anymore, and you know for sure that it will satisfy all your future needs, it is not wise using it as a new DVI format for TeX. Hans Aberg * Email: Hans Aberg * Home Page: * AMS member listing: