[time-nuts] DJVU and PDF

Mike S mikes at flatsurface.com
Sun Dec 12 23:33:10 UTC 2010


At 05:48 PM 12/12/2010, Chuck Harris wrote...
>Chris Albertson wrote:
>>  PDF is the native display format used by the Mac.
>
>No it isn't.  Postscript is the standard internal language.  It is 
>also
>the internal language of Windows, and Linux.

LOL. For someone who presumes to correct others, you should know that 
*nix predates PostScript/pdf/etc. _Some_ Linux _documentation_ is in 
encapsulated Postscript (which is different than .pdf), but that is in 
no way a basis for a claim that it is "the standard internal language," 
which is wrong in many more ways than one.

Chris was correct in a way, since .pdf _is_ the native metafile format 
for recent versions of the Mac OS. Of course, in Windows, it's .wmf 
(Windows Metafile Format), not .pdf.

The closest to a _standard_ "internal display language" in current OSs 
might be HTML or XML. .pdf and .wmf are both proprietary, and in no way 
standards.





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