[wplug] Re: MISM mentor program

[John Harrold]

Sometime in February Russ Schneider assaulted the keyboard and produced:
| You know, as I read the webpage above, I was struck by the "suggested 
| alternatives" it mentioned, namely HTML and PDF.  I would have thought 
| the logical alternative would have been Rich Text Format.  From what I 
| know, .rtf files open on just about any word processor, and I don't 
| believe it proprietary (although I could be wrong, but PDF is owned by 
| Adobe, isn't it?).

pdf is an open standard. it was created by adobe-being the nice folks
that they are-they released the standard to the public. that is why we can
have things like ps2pdf-which is a front end to ghostscript. 

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