martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > also sprach Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.02.11.1332 +0100]: >> But you cannot include pdf files for which no source is included, >> or only Micro$oft .doc files, in a Debian package: We need the >> source code, and pdf, even if not compressed, cannot be taken as >> source code. > > This is debateable. PDF is basically PS,
others commented on this > and PS is source code. PS is only source code if the file was written in PS. If the file was in fact written in some higher-level language like LaTeX, docbook, or *.doc, then the conversion to PS looses a lot of the nice features of these higher-level languages (logical markup like "typeset this as a section heading", "typeset this as you typeset all program names"). You can't recover that from PS, and it wouldn't be my preferred form for modification. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer