Many things

From: Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk_at_yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri Jan 28 14:34:59 2005

On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 18:30 +0000, Michael Sokolov wrote:
> Randy McLaughlin <randy_at_s100-manuals.com> wrote:
>
> > - Run the result through tiff2ps(1)
> > - and finaly generate a PDF with ps2pdf(1).
>
> Could you perhaps be a little more friendly to people like me and Tony Duell
> who actually _USE_ our classic computers for our day-to-day work, including
> viewing classic computer documentation, and make the PostScript available
> as well, i.e., with the last step omitted?
>
> PostScript is infinitely more friendly to Classic Computers than PDF.

Personally I prefer seperate TIFF images for seperate pages; usable on
all sorts of old and new hardware, plus it's quick to just deal with
whatever pages you want rather than some enormous single file.

Of course that's assuming we're talking about images here, not OCR'd
text...

cheers

Jules
Received on Fri Jan 28 2005 - 14:34:59 GMT

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