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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
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On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, David Wolfskill wrote:

> >> >(Is PostScript really something that should be mentioned here?  It has
> >> >more interchange issues than either of the others.
>
> >> It does?
>
> >Page sizes and fonts, for example.
>
> That would seem to be even more of an issue with, say, HTML.

Sure, but the three formats listed were ASCII, PDF, and PostScript.
ASCII and PDF are reasonably good interchange formats.  ASCII doesn't
have too many issues.  PDF includes needed fonts with the document and
the viewers generally let you get around paper size issues.  Both of
those things can be problems with plain PostScript documents.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA