At 04:15 PM 12/16/98 +0100, Hans Aberg wrote:

>Otherwise, I think it is great that Acrobat Reader and part of use of PDF
>are for free -- I wrote to an Adobe executive in the days they were not and
>told him they would make more money that by changing that, and he responded
>that is was a great idea, and after that they changed it.

Wow!  I am impressed!
You know, those damn fools won't even answer my phone calls :-)

>>no. with pdfTeX you can get direct access to PDF as you
>>compose the TeX. an obvious example where pdftex is needed is
>>to allow breaking of links across lines and pages - theoretically
>>possibly in      a dvi->ps->pdf, but I havent seen anyone do it.

>These are kind of examples that I am looking: One should work directly with
>an enhanced DVI, so that one does not get dependant on a long chain of fixes.

It would be nice if TeX supported color the same way it does fonts also.





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