Subject: Re: RFP - Re: Emailing the news -- HTML & PDF From: Rex Ballard Date: Thu, 18 May 1995 01:38:23 -0400 (EDT)
How the Web Was Won
Subject: Re: RFP - Re: Emailing the news -- HTML & PDF From: Rex Ballard Date: Thu, 18 May 1995 01:38:23 -0400 (EDT)
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On Mon, 8 May 1995, Cliff Allen wrote:

> Thanks for the detailed response about SGML, PDF, etc.  I would think that if
> we could get Adobe to make all of the enhancements and changes needed to meet
> your needs, then Acrobat would be in a position to capture a sizable chunk of
> the Internet's large document needs.

I seriously doubt that Adobe will EVER publish reference model source 
code.  They tried to kill Ghostscript twice with "Killer Extensions" and
"Secret Prologues" that made postscript files genereted by windows 
useless on anything but a Windows box.

> I'll keep you posted on our progress with Adobe.
Please do!

> And thanks for the positive comment about our Web site!

> Cliff

	Rex Ballard
	Standard & Poor's/McGraw-Hill
	Opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect
	the Management of the McGraw-Hill Companies.


From rballard@cnj.digex.net Thu May 18 01:39:17 1995