Re: PostScript?

Subject: Re: PostScript?
From: Dr. Markus Hönicka <Hoenicka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 11:02:41 +0200
Jean-Baptiste wrote:
>>	I saw nowhere mention of a PostScript back-end for Jade.. Is
there one?
I saw on James Clark's Jade web page that he would like to see a PDF
backend, why PDF
rather than PostScript? Anyway if we have one, we pretty much have the
other, since there
are (if i am not mistaken) converter PS->PDF and PDF->PS..<<

Well, I have some difficulties to understand why we should want this
all. Currently I use Jade->Jadetex->dvips to create PS output, and yes,
there are converters to get this into PDF. But having a PDF or PS
backend means AFAIK to bypass the excellent formatting capabilities of
TeX. PS does not format a document, but it rather describes a formatted
document, so you have to have one in the first place. The same holds
true for PDF, or am I completely wrong here?

Markus


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