Re: The New Zork Times


13 Jul 1995 15:13:47 GMT

In article <DBBrL4.74s@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>,
Stephen Van Egmond <svanegmo@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

>The difficulty with scanning graphics is that you need to use a
>reasonably standard representation so that not too many people are left
>out in the cold. What does that leave, DVI? GIF? PostScript?

Ack! (makes the sign of the cross) Not PostScript!

Postscript is EVIL for archives. It uses huge amounts of disk space,
because it stores everything in text. It doesn't make any attempt to
minimize its space usage; common commands that should take a byte or so
are often indicated with 10-letter words.

(Maybe if you gzipped it, it would be OK, but I haven't checked.)

Phil Goetz@cs.buffalo.edu