RE: Jade Backends (from The DSSSList Digest V2 #120)

[MARK.WROTH@xxxxxxxxxxx (Wroth, Mark)]

Speaking only for myself, as a user largely incapable of doing either, I
would find either a Postscript or a PDF backend to Jade useful.  
	As Jean-Baptiste points out, one can get the PDF from the
Postscript (if equipped with the appropriate commercial converter).
However, despite that, if I could only get one and got to pick which
one, I would choose PDF, largely because it is better supported BY THE
PARTICULAR GROUP of people I'm typically producing for (I decline to
venture an opinion on the more general question).

	BTW, a decent plain ASCII (i.e. emailable in an SMTP message as
formatted but not marked up plain text) would be even more useful.
There are obvious issues with such functionality (what does one do with
non-ASCII characters, for example).  My current approach to this one is
to use the RTF backend and then save the resulting file as text, which
sort of works but is less than totally satisfactory.

> Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 18:15:23 -0400
> From: Jean-Baptiste <jbnivoit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: PostScript?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 	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..
> 
> 			jb.
> 
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