Hi,

only as additional information. There IS an Acrobat Reader for DOS. For
the sake of truth, it can not handle all the bells and whistles (e. g.
hyperlinks and other fancy stuff). But, for a graphics, it can be helpful.

Imre

On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Martin Darwin wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Frank A. Vorstenbosch wrote:
>
> > *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.
>
> MD
>
>