Re: Timetable for 3.3.12 release. Documentation issues

[Peter Wainwright]

On Sat, 2009-01-31 at 13:27 -0500, R. Bernstein wrote:
> Peter Wainwright writes:
>  > Thanks for the tip. The EPSTOPDF setting wasn't the problem; that just
>  > affects the generation of a few figures.  However, having installed the
>  > "context" package, I have found that pdftops can produce a much smaller
>  > ps file than pdf2ps (10M instead of the whopping 53M).
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> And larger than the PDF. You can reduce the size by 0.7M or so using
> the -noemb* options (and at a risk of making this less printer
> independent). However, I suggest dropping postscript from the tarball
> altogether and just make it available from the website if that's even
> needed.

I agree.  I should think "Everyone" has a PDF viewer (free or non-free)
and appropriate printer drivers now, the PS version is therefore a
legacy item.


Peter

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>  > [But even that is bigger than the 5.4M ddd.ps in the original ddd-3.3.11
>  > tarball]
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