Subj : Re: How much should I charge for fixed-price software contract? To : comp.programming From : Chris Sonnack Date : Thu Aug 18 2005 12:14 pm Joe Wright writes: > Adobe postulated (it didn't exist yet) the PDF in 1991. It was a spinoff > of PostScript for computer displays. Macintosh and NeXT used PostScript > displays. From then until now PDF is not even slightly related to Word > files or HTML. Portable Document Format allows one to print the > identical document on all supported systems. It's all about images on > printers. Vectors and colors. (Word is (or at least was--new versions don't seem to be, unless it's been compressed or encoded somehow) just RTF on serious steroids.) Some Adobe folks recently gave us a demo of their PDF forms capability, and they claimed that their new PDF standard was XML under the hood. I remain skeptical, and the demo was presented by sales types, so I never got a really good (read: technically astute) answer. > There's not an ASCII character in the lot. Am I misunderstanding? There's plenty of ASCII in most PDF files... -- |_ CJSonnack _____________| How's my programming? | |_ http://www.Sonnack.com/ ___________________| Call: 1-800-DEV-NULL | |_____________________________________________|_______________________| .