Re: Ready to release?

On Mon, 8 May 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> > > Do you want PDF?  I can do it, or should we send out postscript?
> > 
> > Sure we should send out postscript. I *know* what the Postscript looks
> > like; I haven't worked with the PDF to know that it is 100% good.
> > Also, PDF requires a reader which afaik is not available on all of our
> > supported platforms; Postscript is supported natively by some
> > printers.
> > 
> > Shall we revisit this for 7.1, well before release time?
> 
> No, if you are happy with Postscript, let's stay with it.  I only
> recommended PDF because we can embed the fonts right in the file, but
> maybe that isn't important.

Just a thought, but putting PDF versions online might be much much more
friendly to those downloading ... the only one that *truly* needs to be in
the distribution is the html stuff, the rest should be made available
through the WWW, for those that want ... not everyone has a postscript
printer, so downloading postscript files tend to sound like more work then
should be required ... *shrug*


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