Re: Any file? Quite an acrobat

[Bruce McFarling <brmcf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I do know that Adobe Acrobat handles PostScript:
it's from the creaters of PostScript. And since
you can get a whole lot of file formats translated
into PostScript (the problem, of course, is getting
is out again!) tha covers a lot of ground.
	But I still prefer Jim Devine's RTF format
suggestion.  You can convert between RTF and HTML,
for online browsing, and of course you can get
formatted ASCII text out of HTML or RTF.  PostScript
is a page description language, and for searching
and quoting and browsing electronically, you want the
file in some sort of standard searchable text format.
RTF solves the problem of math characters.  And of
course, it is a lot easier to automate the generation
of PostScript from RTF than visa-versa.
	Or is my generation just too lazy to want to
retype something that's already in electronic format?
That's a possibility too.

Virtually,

Bruce McFarling, Knoxville
brmcf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx


On Tue, 28 Feb 1995, Herbert Gintis wrote:

> >There is a relatively easy way to upload, transmit, and read papers
> >that PKTers
> >want to put on the net.  Adobe Acrobat 2.0 will transform any file into a
> >format that can be read or printed using their "reader" that is free
> > software.
> 	Any file? This is not possible. It must know how the file is
> interpreted. What types of files can it handle (e.g., WP, Word, Tex,
> PostScript, Lotus Freelance, gif, etc. The idea is great if it's
> flexible enough.
>
> Herb gintis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>