At 12:36 PM 11/27/96 -0700, you wrote:
>     The original intention of sending out a pdf version of the PIC
>     spreadsheet was to provide a greater acceptance and readability for
>     the majority of folks who have graphical displays (Macs, Wintels, and
>     Unix machines), and not necessarily for those still hacking away at
>     DOS.
>
>     (I've always felt that DOS was always slightly more robust than
>     Windows.)
>
>     pdf files are compressed, as mentioned in the List before, which lends
>     them to their portability. I can still take the input and convert it
>     to EPS (encapsulated Postscript) with the ease that I convert it to
>     pdf; it'll just be bigger.
>
>     And mail it directly to those who do not use modern systems.
>
>     Norm LeMieux
>     MCHIP FAE/NW
>
Norm,

Getting back to your original point about PDF, many of us would love to
see the PIC spreadsheet in PDF format. I don't know if John can "PRINT" it
in PDF or not, (Yes, at least some of us understood what you were refering
to.)

I have tried to "PRINT" the spreadsheet in PDF but it is well beyond the
acrobat PDF writer and requires the distiller. If you have access to the
distiller and can supply a PDF version, Myself and others would be more than
happy to make it available on our FTP sites.

For most of us, the issue is not slow printing speeds but the fact the
spreadsheet is currently not available to us in our prefered PDF format.

Now, can you help with this much?


Jim