PostScript versus PDF as an output format

Question

I\'m currently writing a typesetting application and I\'m using PSG as the backend for producing postscript files. I\'m now wondering whether that choice makes sense. It seems t

Answer 1

Here are some things to consider:

• gzipped postscript is often much smaller than an equivalent PDF
• PDF is basically a generalized container format, if you didn't know that you can embed videos in PDF, that should give you pause
• PDF contains scripts that have been used for exploits (though this may be more the fault of bad PDF reader software)