Dan Drake wrote: > Those that point out that the PDF is as proprietary as the Word format > are quite correct, but at least the specification is open, and I > can generate nice PDFs with my good friend pdflatex. :) I don't follow your statement. RMS's point is that Word's file format is not an open specification, and MS has used (il)legal means to prevent people from making it open. Adobe, on the other hand, while they do create the PDF specification, does publish said specification. And in the past, ghostscript has been known to support a new version of the spec before Adobe can release a new version of Acrobat to support it. PDF is therefore not *as* proprietary as the Word format. Note I make no claim that it's not proprietary. ;p Adobe could conceivably stop publishing the specifications, or just include extra unpublished features in Acrobat. But they haven't done that, because they want PDF to be used. (Note also the similar history of PostScript.) Sorry, don't mean to rant, I should go to bed :) But I think people's perception of PDF as being "as bad" as Word format might be keeping it from being more accepted. Then again, some people use PDF for things it should never be used for (Web publishing when printing with all layout maintained is not a necessity). But that's a whole other discussion :) Goodnight everybody! :) -- Pacem in terris / Mir / Shanti / Salaam / Heiwa Kevin R. Bullock