[Coco] why you should stick with pdf

[Michael Wayne Harwood]

No worries there - I am not going to pick a standard that doesn't have
viewers for Windows, Unix, and Macintosh.  I am using the Linux viewer and
it works quite well - in fact (my opinion) it works better than the PDF
clients available for Linux... 

Regards,
Michael Harwood

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of Frank Pittel
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 11:30 AM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] why you should stick with pdf

On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 12:50:13PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 09:44:33AM -0700, rtdos at yahoogroups.com wrote:
> > 1.  its still the standard, on Mac, Windows, and even Linux; heck 
> > there are PDF readers for Amiga and Atari ST as well.
> > 
> > 2.  djvu is still fairly new (when compared to pdf); for example, 
> > people still use pdf even though Microsoft has its own ebook format?  
> > Why?  Because pdf is still THE standard.
> > 
> > 3.  djvu might not work on older machines where pdf will (even my 
> > dos based laptop)
> > 
> > here is a FREEWARE pdf compression tool:
> > 
> > http://www.bureausoft.com/products.html
> 
> Well, I must have missed something...is this really an issue?
> I've never even heard of djvu...
> 
> If you go w/ something other than PDF, you can likely reduce your 
> sales estimate by (at least) one...

Make that at least two. For me the price difference of 1 vs ~5 dvds is far
less of a concern then the ability view the disks from linux.

If a format is selected that doesn't have a viewer available for linux then
I won't be interested. I'm also not interested in having to go out and buy
special software to view the disks.

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