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From: dfr@usna.navy.mil (PROF D. Rogers (EAS FAC))
Subject: Re: Color space FAQ
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In article <D0CJBz.GEB@bbc.co.uk> alanr@rd.bbc.co.uk (Alan Roberts) writes:
!Alfred A. Hambidge, Jr. (hambidge@sis.bms.com) wrote:
!: In article <D02s0p.B54@bbc.co.uk!, alanr@rd.bbc.co.uk (Alan Roberts) writes:
!
!: ! Charles Poynton of Sun Microsystems has posted
!: !two background documents in Adobe PDF format, I have contributed to another
!: !document full of equations and maths with Adrian Ford and that is posted
!: !as well, but not here since BBC does not do such things.
!
!: Is there any possibility of obtaining these files as plain
!: text?  That would be appreciated by those of us who don't Adobe.
!
!: Al Hambidge, Jr.                 Round up the usual disclaimers.
!
!I've had long discussions with Charles about that. He wants to carry on in
!Adobe because the Adobe reader is universally available (ie. for DOS, UNIX,
!Windows, MAC, sorry if you're not on that list). The Adobe scripts do look
!very nice, with subscripts, superscripts, underlines, equations etc, but I
!would be happier if there were a standard ASCII version as well. After all,
!not every reader has unlimited access to download software.
!
!If you feel strongly that there should be ASCII versions of Charles' FAQs
!(they are _extremely_ good, but long) then I suggest you make appropriate
!noises to Charles, and see if you can convince him. I don't have the means
!to produce ASCII versions of his texts. otherwise I would be happy to post
!them.

How about getting him to make them available in PostScript.

Dave Rogers
