[DOC-SIG] Library reference SGML plan / size of supplied documentation

[Scott]

Personally, I've found postscript much easier to deal with than pdf.

scott

On Wed, Nov 19, 1997 at 09:37:41AM -0500, Guido van Rossum wrote:
| > From: Richard Folwell <richardf@redbox.net>
| 
| > Overall I prefer Postscript, but PDF has the big 
| > practical advantage that we can distribute a viewer with it, whereas many 
| > people are not in a position to view/print Postscript [2].
| 
| Really?  If we distribute HTML for online viewing, does PDF still
| have any advantages over PostScript for printing?  I've rarely had
| complaints about the PostScript I've been distributing so far.  Having
| to dwonload the viewer is actually a deterrent for those people who
| haven't already got one.
| 
| --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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