Adobe Acrobat format for documentation

[William Thompson]

Lucio Chiappetti <lucio at ifctr.mi.cnr.it> writes:

>On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Frederic Taugwalder wrote:

>>  Would it be possible to be able to retrieve the FITS documentation in Adobe
>> Acrobat format in the near future ?

>  Please don't.
>  Or at least continue to supply good old Postscript as well.

I think that supplying the FITS documentation would be very helpful to users,
since for many platforms the PDF viewers are more capable than PostScript
viewers, and since the PDF files are smaller than the PostScript files.
However, I would agree with the statement that the PDF files should augment
rather than supplant the PostScript files--not everyone has a PDF viewer, and
there are still platforms that Adobe Acrobat does not run on.

William Thompson