Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cwjcc!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: Call for discussion -- comp.binaries.usenet-ps-maps Message-ID: <1989Nov12.163133.10359@NCoast.ORG> Date: 12 Nov 89 16:31:33 GMT References: <612@alias.UUCP> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) Followup-To: news.groups Organization: North Coast Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, OH Lines: 24 As quoted from <612@alias.UUCP> by rae%alias@csri.utoronto.ca (Reid Ellis): +--------------- | Rich Salz writes: | |I'm sure some people are opposed to the "-ps-" part of the name. The | |intent is to help ward off people from asking for HPGL or TIFF or other | |formats. Yes, the mnemonic is not totally obvious, but we think it strikes | |a reasonable compromise. | | This does not address the "I want a TIFF version" questions mentioned, but | I don't think it's that much of a problem -- has Brian Reid been deluged | with such questions/requests? +--------------- That shouldn't be much of a problem anyway: a little PostScript can make a BIG bitmap! Anyone who *got* a TIFF version mailed to them would probably not be able to handle the size of their mailbox.... ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery allbery@NCoast.ORG, BALLBERY (MCI Mail), ALLBERY (Delphi) uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@hal.cwru.edu bsa@telotech.uucp *(comp.sources.misc mail to comp-sources-misc[-request]@backbone.site, please)* *Third party vote-collection service: send mail to allbery@uunet.uu.net (ONLY)* expnet.all: Experiments in *net management and organization. Mail me for info.