From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Fri Mar 25 2005 - 17:40:17 CST
On 25/03/2005 21:54, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>>http://www.gutenberg.eu.org/pub/GUTenberg/publicationsPDF/10-knappen.pdf
>>
>>
>>>Here a much more readable version of this document (using real fonts)
>>>
>>> http://www.uni-mainz.de/~knappen/euro_rev.ps
>>>
>>>
>>I'm just curious: in what way for the average user a PS file is
>>going to be more readable than a PDF file?
>>
>>
>
>The above pdf file contains *images* of the article (which has been
>scanned with low resolution), while the PS file has been directly
>translated from the LaTeX source.
>
>
>
The point is that most people do not have installed on their computers
software which can view a .PS file or convert it to a .PDF. So it would
have been much more helpful to do this conversion and put the .PDF file
on the website as well.
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