[time-nuts] DJVU and PDF

Magnus Danielson magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org
Sun Dec 12 23:55:52 UTC 2010


On 12/13/2010 12:33 AM, Mike S wrote:
> 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.

PDF is standardized in ISO 32000, hence no longer proprietary.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format

But I think this thread is off-topic and gone on long enough.

Cheers,
Magnus



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