Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!chinacat!woody From: woody@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Woody Baker @ Eagle Signal) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: UnPostscripter? Summary: you gotta be kidding! Message-ID: <1589@chinacat.Unicom.COM> Date: 25 Sep 90 04:09:36 GMT References: <1990Sep21.003615.7222@amd.com> Organization: a guest of Unicom Systems Development, Austin Lines: 20 > > I worry about the availability of such decoding tool in general, > because my colleagues and I use postscript as a relatively secure > method (secure from cut and paste plagiarism, at least) to prepublish > scientific papers. Postscript was specifically chosen over TeX > precisely for its ability to obscure the source text. You gotta be kidding. If I wanted to plagarize any prepublished papers, I'd simply scan them in, and use OCR to get the text. Now, if you are sending the raw postscript file out, it seems likely that postscript would indeed obscure the source text, but certainly if you are dealing with sending or giving someone a copy to critique or review, you would be giving them a final i.e. printed page, not the Postscript code. I think it is harder to read TeX source files with all the embedded junk in them (at least the last time I looked, TeX was a nightmare to specify anything in. Cheers Woody