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I'm not sure what you mean by pdf being simpler, charliex.. Pdf is already rip'ed which means you get true wysiwyg. Postscript can look different depending on the rip, especially for colour prints.
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well in two ways, first its already rip'ed so therefore its simpler, since it skips that process step, secondly theres a lot less commands in it, so its a simpler format, thirdly as i mentioned before postscript is a fully fledged language, and PDF is a format.
PDF also can look very different on colour outputs unless the whole chain is matched, same as PS, but if a device follows the PS format exactly it should have no problem rendering it as expected.
Last time i checked on PDF you coulnd't jump to half way through a document and render it, you have to download and parse the entire first half to get to that page, something i find really annoying when reading online PDFs, PS allows you to skip to wherever is logical.
As soon as i see an operating system using PDF to render its GUI and associated program graphics, i'll regress that PS is more powerful than PDF
, but i don't see that happening anytime soon as that would just make PDF postscript, which adobe has no intentions of doing, they are designed for different things.