Hans Aberg writes: > I think that Netscape comes with a PDF plugin, for inline PDF displays. Adobe produce plugins for IE and Netscape, but that assumes there is an Acrobat for your platform ... > I do not think one is required to include the fonts in PDF; at XXX, one can > even choose what fonts one wants to use (Mac PS CM or regular CM). you must include symbol fonts, or you really well get bizarre results... > >Address that problem by using dvips and then ps2pdf, or dvipdf, if it exists. > > This does not work with embedded links. sorry? of course it does > Clearly the disadvantage with PDF is that it is a commercial > product, and "PDF" is a language specification written and owned by Adobe, but fully published. "Acrobat" is Adobe's implementation, and a commercial product. At least a dozen other implementations exist of some sort (ie of a reader, writer, PS distiller, programmers API). to me, thats not a bad deal. > that it is somewhat too primitive to be used as a WWW-bytecode standard. whatever that might be! sebastian