OT: PC World are useless - was Re: [Gllug] OT: microdirect.co.ukreliable?

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On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Peter Childs wrote:
> pdf files are compressed I think, where as you can write postscript in
> a text editor you'll have fun writing pdf I think.

It's optionally compressed. PostScript, too, is optionally compressed.

The only difference is the default --- well, that and that PDF is not a
pure-text format.

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