Re: Any file? Quite an acrobat

[ACSLKS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx id <01HNKW53FSUE8Y8W6Z@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Tue, 28 Feb 1995 10:49:15 -0400 (EDT)]

> 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
>

As I mentioned in the message sent to H. Gintis, under Acrobat one can save
from any file format, (WP, Word, ASCII, Tek, etc.), to a format known as a
"PDF" file--which is a modified Postscript file.  The Acrobat reader is
freeware, so you can read or print the file.

Lonnie K. Stevans