In a message dated 8/14/98 6:00:29 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
martin@DAVIN.OTTAWA.ON.CA writes:

<<
 > *bzzzzt* wrong! thank you for playing...
 >
 > I'd say that raw postscript is more likely to be understood by people
 > (including all those that can't run Acrobat), or GIF is a good choice
 > because anyone capable of browsing the web graphically can see gifs.

 Well, from a quick look at the adobe page, Acrobat reader works on quite a
 few systems (Win95,NT,3.1,Mac,Linux,AIX,SunOS,Solaris,IRIX,Hp-UX,Digital
 Unix, OS/2). That's a pretty good list IMHO. The only two OS's they are
 missing that I know of are DOS (no graphics anyway) and AmigaOS. Besides
 you need Acrobat to view almost all datasheets (unless you are getting
 them in printed form).

 Postscript ends up being a pain in the ass if you don't have a postscript
 printer (i.e. having to get Ghostscript et al.) GIF's are good too. It
 should be upto whoever is supplying the schematic to decide what format to
 use.
  >>
OK time for my 2 cents worth!

Hi Everyone

Try the schematic compression routine on www.zonn.com

It will take any black and white scan of a schematic and compress it so it
will travel well on the web.

Compresses better than 2 to 1 over PKzip.  It has been optimized for B&W line
art style schematic images.

Dave Duley