From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/4045 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Barr Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: More on Adobe reader 8 Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:53:13 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241019685 11462 80.91.229.2 (29 Apr 2009 15:41:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:41:25 +0000 (UTC) To: Categories list Original-X-From: rrosebru@mta.ca Wed Oct 31 15:39:18 2007 -0300 Return-path: Envelope-to: categories-list@mta.ca Delivery-date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:39:18 -0300 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1InIEO-0002Xk-7S for categories-list@mta.ca; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:23:56 -0300 Original-Sender: cat-dist@mta.ca Precedence: bulk X-Keywords: X-UID: 103 Original-Lines: 15 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:4045 Archived-At: A man named Pierre McKay, one of the real tex gurus has now written that a large archive of files rendered into pdf by Ghostcript are now unreadable in Reader 8. My main point is that dvi should remain our ultimate format. Even when the viewers do not render the dvi file correctly, all the information is there and can be converted to pdf by whatever converter we have available. And authors should be encouraged to provide, if at all possible, files that do render properly in dvi format. This means avoid rotated letters and avoid, I much regret to say, diagram packages that work properly only in ps or pdf format. One of the things that makes xypic (not to mention packages based on it) so remarkable is that it manages to do all it does without using such tricks. Michael