At 10:55 AM 98/12/14 , Hans Aberg wrote: >Clearly the disadvantage with PDF is that it is a commercial product, and The PDF file format is open. Not proprietary. The fact that Acrobat Distiller and Exchange are commercial means that a lot of development are done on them on a contiuing basis. It is hard to compete with that using time syphoned off from sponsored research projects (so called `free' time). >that it is somewhat too primitive to be used as a WWW-bytecode standard. Regards, Berthold. Y&Y, Inc. http://www.YandY.com/news.htm mailto:[log in to unmask]