Re: [PLUG] OT: Publisher 98 to PDF

[Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr@lazerware.com>]

At 3:05 PM -0400 5/1/02, Paul wrote:
> The files are on http://dpagin.net/

	Ah, the famous "colorcir.ps" - always a good one.

	The reason that the PS of this is much smaller than the PDF 
is the one of the core differences between PS and PDF.  PS is a 
programming language (based on Forth), while PDF is a declarative 
file format.

	colorcir.ps takes advantage of the programming aspects of PS 
by creating a subroutine to generate the colors, and then simply 
calling that routine multiple times with different parameters.   In 
the PDF,  however, each line has to be specified individually.


Leonard
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