========================================================================= Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1993 15:34:13 +0200 Reply-To: The TUG DVI driver standards discussion list Sender: The TUG DVI driver standards discussion list From: NetAdvertiser Subject: The Net ADvertiser ***************************************************************************** Are you trying to sell your car, your home, your drums, your whole Jimi Hendrix's bootlegs collection? Are you going to rent your flat at Aspen for the summer time? Or maybe you are looking for a car, or for a new job, or for friends to spend all the nights watching Peter Greenaways's movies or playing Diplomacy. Even if you are offering jobs and managing a commercial company you can enter the world of: T H E N E T A D V E R T I S E R The Net Advertiser is a mailing list created to give all the Internet community the opportunity to widespread private sales, rent, offer messages. Everybody can find a place in The Net Advertiser digest, even commercial companies. This is a list maintained by the InfoNet Project, a group of computer science experts, students and consultants whose aim is the propagation of all kind of information across the Internet and CREN world. Advertising in the digest is completely free, except for commercial companies which must submit a 75 $ fee in order to support the InfoNet Project work. For any information, subscription and submission write to: netad@uds01.unix.st.it. ***************************************************************************** ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1993 11:08:00 CST Reply-To: The TUG DVI driver standards discussion list Sender: The TUG DVI driver standards discussion list From: YAYO Subject: Re: The Net ADvertiser SUB-Scribe ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1993 11:22:21 CDT Reply-To: The TUG DVI driver standards discussion list Sender: The TUG DVI driver standards discussion list From: Ed.Garay@UIC.EDU Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago, Computer Center Subject: DVI to (Acrobat) PDF driver Is anyone working on a DVI to PDF driver for DOS, Unix or OS/2? PDF is the Portable Document Format, the Adobe Acrobat file format, based on the PostScript imaging model, that is capable of representing any PostScript page. If we could get our TeX documents in PDF format, then we could use one of the Acrobat viewers, like Acrobat Reader or Acrobat Exchange, to preview our documents with all the benefits of the Acrobat technology (e.g. font metric emulation, zooming, panning, searching, post-it-like annotations, etc). With Adobe Exchange, we could print PDF documents on PostScript AND EVEN on non-PostScript printers. This, of course, assumes that Adobe Acrobat is going to take off, which I believe it will, and that the Adobe Acrobat products are going to be commonplace and not expensive. Today, you can get Acrobat Exchange for Windows and the Mac for about $120, in the U.S. Acrobat Reader sells for about $50. Acrobat Distiller, which converts PostScript to PDF, sells for $600, but this wouldn't be needed if we had a DVI2PDF driver ;-) Adobe says these products will run on Windows, Mac, DOS and Unix (and OS/2 I hope), in that order. Also, last week I saw a thin (~180 page) PDF specs book published by Adobe, at a local bookstore. I would really like to hear your thoughts on the merits of a DVI2PDF driver. --- Ed Garay ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1993 10:33:08 -0700 Reply-To: The TUG DVI driver standards discussion list Sender: The TUG DVI driver standards discussion list From: "Tomas G. Rokicki" Subject: Re: DVI to (Acrobat) PDF driver Well, I'm planning to work on one. Unfortunately, the font support provided by PDF is pretty poor (only Type 1 fonts using Adobe Standard Encoding) so it would be tricky. There's one possible solution in insisting that everyone have Y&Y Type 1 or BSR Type 1 fonts for the CM fonts, but that's still somewhat pricey and disk hungry. And also, to include PostScript graphics (pretty much a standard, and all the previewers I write/support directly display PostScript graphics on the screen) you would need to essentially reinvent distiller, anyway. tom