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Re: PostScript Document Distribution (Was Adobe Acrobat)
Subject:Re: PostScript Document Distribution (Was Adobe Acrobat) From:"David L. Bergart" <BODAFU -at- TWNAS886 -dot- BITNET> Date:Fri, 24 Jun 1994 13:45:17 +0800
sfouts -at- ellison -dot- sc -dot- ti -dot- com (Steve Fouts) pointed out that
>There are a number of cheap or free viewers for PS files, so you can access
>the fies without a printer, you just can't print them.
Well, I've had only partial luck getting ghostscript to work. It will happily
print the demo files that come with it, but not much else. Even if it does
work, using it to view a twenty page doc is one thing, but any sort of serious
study of something over a hundred pages is counterproductive -- especially
since you can't make notes in the margin.
>On another side note, there are those of us who distibute files in a
>proprietary form on purpose as a planned impediment. We don't want the
>average Schmoe to be able to alter the file. If it is easy to alter the
>info, then it is hard to maintain version control...
Oh, it's an impediment all right. Version control should apply in your
shop, but once it is in the users hands they *should* be able to modify or
correct it as suites their needs; even a Windows help file can be annotated.
David
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