[DOC-SIG] Postscript vs. PDF

Paul Prescod papresco@technologist.com
Thu, 20 Nov 1997 14:31:10 -0500


Bill Janssen wrote:
> 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.

I believe PDFTex meets all requirements. I don't know how easy it is to
install on top of an existing TeX distribution, though. I've never
tried.

 Paul Prescod



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