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In article <1992Oct7.162931.3671@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> matthews@ecfa.jsc.nasa.gov  
(Michael C. Matthews) writes:
> In article <1992Oct5.190630.26539@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>  
audley@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Christopher D Audley) writes:
> >Why not just use PostScript. 
>[...]
> 2) PostScript is difficult to view, even on a NeXT... Have you ever
> actually tried to read a long PS document in Preview?  Or worse, tried
> to read Page 50 of a 60-page document?  It's a nightmare.  Maybe it's
> better in 3.0 (I haven't seen it yet), but in 2.1 you had to page
> forward, wait for the page to image, and then page forward again, ad
> nauseum.  And that's if you KNOW which page you want to read!

Well, I can go from random page to random page with my NeXT 2.1
Preview app by just typing the page number in the page number field at the  
bottom.  This is  almost easier than working with the printed text.

It has a lot to do with the tool that created the postscript, but if there
are no errors in the rendering (eg. the panel warning that paging backward   
comes up), random paging is fast, at least on the <100page
documents I have the occasion to read.

Other than that, I think the arguments for rtfd replacing WN are
valid.

-geoff
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