[Coco] why you should stick with pdf

[Frank Pittel]

That's good to hear. As a fellow linux user I'm sure you understand the
concern that I had. All to often shifts to "now and improved" software means
windows only. In the end the upgrade shuts me out since I don't have any
windows machines.

Frank

 
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 11:20:08AM -0600, Michael Wayne Harwood wrote:
> No worries there - I am not going to pick a standard that doesn't have
> viewers for Windows, Unix, and Macintosh.  I am using the Linux viewer and
> it works quite well - in fact (my opinion) it works better than the PDF
> clients available for Linux... 
> 
> Regards,
> Michael Harwood
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
> Behalf Of Frank Pittel
> Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 11:30 AM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] why you should stick with pdf
> 
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 12:50:13PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 09:44:33AM -0700, rtdos at yahoogroups.com wrote:
> > > 1.  its still the standard, on Mac, Windows, and even Linux; heck 
> > > there are PDF readers for Amiga and Atari ST as well.
> > > 
> > > 2.  djvu is still fairly new (when compared to pdf); for example, 
> > > people still use pdf even though Microsoft has its own ebook format?  
> > > Why?  Because pdf is still THE standard.
> > > 
> > > 3.  djvu might not work on older machines where pdf will (even my 
> > > dos based laptop)
> > > 
> > > here is a FREEWARE pdf compression tool:
> > > 
> > > http://www.bureausoft.com/products.html
> > 
> > Well, I must have missed something...is this really an issue?
> > I've never even heard of djvu...
> > 
> > If you go w/ something other than PDF, you can likely reduce your 
> > sales estimate by (at least) one...
> 
> Make that at least two. For me the price difference of 1 vs ~5 dvds is far
> less of a concern then the ability view the disks from linux.
> 
> If a format is selected that doesn't have a viewer available for linux then
> I won't be interested. I'm also not interested in having to go out and buy
> special software to view the disks.
> 
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