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Topic: why .ps ?
Replies: 39   Last Post: Aug 9, 2000 3:13 PM

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Jamas Enright

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Re: why .ps ?
Posted: Aug 6, 2000 2:11 AM
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On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Ilia Kapovitch wrote:

> I could agree that more mathematicians should convert .ps files into .pdf
> files, which are much smaller and printable on more printers.

No they're not.

A 200k ps file converted into a 3M pdf file.
A 500k ps file converted into a 10M pdf file.

(Using pspdf)

Smaller, my eye.

Jamas Enright
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