Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!agate!pasteur!ucbvax!A.ISI.EDU!CERF From: CERF@A.ISI.EDU Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Comment on RFC1124 (?) Message-ID: <[A.ISI.EDU]28-Sep-89.07:35:08.CERF> Date: 28 Sep 89 11:35:00 GMT References: <5446@asylum.SF.CA.US> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 16 Karl, The PostScript question is well taken. We seriously need some way to capitalize on "desktop publishing" (compound documents) without being forced back to paper only. At the same time, all of us recognize and have experienced the problem you describe. The one thing which is still a major conundrum for me is the problem of illustrations. ASCII only illustrations are painful to produce and most tools produce other than ASCII (bitmap or PostScript is more typical graphic tool output). What's your general thought about finding a path towards benefitting from the tools now emerging while at the same time not losing the obvious benefits of the ASCII output form? Vint