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From: "Pat Rogers" <progers@classwide.com>
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Preben Randhol wrote:
> On 2003-11-05, Pat Rogers <progers@classwide.com> wrote:
>> By the way, Word is only preferred in the sense that I cannot
handle
>> LaTex or FrameMaker or something like that.  People typically want
to
>> send their submissions in the format of the tool that produced the
>> document itself.  Also, I can make trivial changes for people if
they
>> send their submissions in Word.  As it mentions in the Guidelines
for
>> Authors, PDF is perfectly acceptable, as is Postscript.
>
> Why can't you handle LaTeX? LaTeX produces both PS and PDF.

My use of "handle" above is misleading -- I just don't have LaTex or
FrameMaker (etc) installed.

PDF is fine but not everyone can produce it.

Postscript is convenient for people because just about anything can
select a postscript printer and capture the output to a file.  I can
then convert the postscript to PDF myself.