On Jun 26, 23:31, Ward Donald Griffiths III wrote:
> Yes, LaTeX. Since it can actually be translated to other forms. A .PDF
> is more or less a bitmap picture of what used to be text and is usually
> unreadable -- Hell, last week at work I got an email with a .PDF
> attachment that included the icon where the document said "examine the
> attached bitmap" left over from its Word origin, but for some reason
> clicking on that icon in the .PDF doesn't bring up the full picture.
No, PDF is more-or-less PostScript. However, *some* PDF documents actually
include scanned images, which of course are usually bitmaps because the
creator didn't OCR them. Both PostScript and PDF files can contain text,
vector graphics, and bitmap graphics.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Received on Sat Jun 27 1998 - 06:14:23 BST