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From: Georg Greve <greve@*******.HANSE.DE>
Subject: Re: New SR E-mag
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 12:55:50 GMT
Gurth (gurth@******.NL) wrote:
: Georg Greve said on 3:26/30 Nov 96...
: > Hmmm... why not use postscript ? It has even graphics/formatting and
: > can be used/read by EVERY system on this planet.
: I can see several rasons why Fro shouldn't use PostScript... Most
: important is that you need either a PS printer or a software viewer to
: use the damn stuff, and second it's at least 5 times bigger than a

But it is easily compressable which shrinks back to normal.

: comparable word processor file -- I've tried making PS versions of some
: of the Plastic Warriors files, and you don't want to know what file size I
: got out of it...

But this stupid "Vomit for Windumb" format cannot be read by anything
else which is exactly why I and some of my friends couldn't take a
single look at the Plastic Warrior files.

Later,
Georg

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