[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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