[DOC-SIG] Postscript vs. PDF

[Bill Janssen]

Excerpts from ext.python: 19-Nov-97 [DOC-SIG] Postscript vs. PDF Guido
van Rossum@CNRI.Re (1340)

> BTW I believe that in order to create PDF one normally needs to buy an
> Adobe program.  Is there a free alternative?

I think you have to be more ambitious than that.  There's no point in
creating PDF that's the same as Postscript -- no links, no cut&paste of
text.  So the tool chain has to be free, support links, and support text
selection.

Bill

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