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On Thursday 04 January 2007 19:46, John Palmer wrote: > On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Paul Sutton wrote: > > Isn't part the reason things are in pdf, (esp science documents) is that > > they are writtne using latex, which seems to be a standard, then > > converted to pdf from there. > > There is also pdflatex, which writes pdf directly. > Why PDF? It offers absolutely nothing to the world. Its just another useless proprietary format. There were one or two things that required to be printed exactly to scale - but since you can now print to fill the paper size then that potential usefulness has gone and its just another way of cluttering up your computer. The only other vaguely useful option was to make it uneditable - ie less usable by the recipient but there are many ways of extracting the text from a document - pdf2txt OCR etc. Reading a PDF document in a browser has always been a bit of a nightmare and gobbles up CPU and disk space. Why on earth does the browser plugin waste space with a search the web option???? So you don't actually gain anything through using it but make life difficult for others. Oh Happy New Year. Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html