5 Jun
2005
5 Jun
'05
5:49 p.m.
On Fri, 03 Jun 2005 11:09:01 -0500
Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org> wrote:
Michael Sokolov wrote:
Don Lancaster has written a lot of cool info about directly creating
postscript files with a text editor. It was his 'big thing' after all
the 'cookbook' books that we love and revere. He still has a website
with all of his postscript lore on it.
There are very few things in the Universe that
enrage me more than
PDF files that have been produced from PostScript with the original
PS being unavailable to me. PS reconstructed from PDF is never as
good as the original PS from which the PDF was made.
What is your proof that the PDF was created from PS? Was the PS
hand-edited by a person, or generated by a program? If the latter, I
doubt the original PS will have "more" than the PDF.
The difference between PostScript and PDF is very
much like that
between the source and binary forms of a program. Publishing PDF
files while withholding or discarding PS from which they were made
is a crime
Most PDFs I've created from PS source had that PS source generated by
some other program. PS was just the intermediate transport. The
"original PS" didn't exist since the *original* was really something
else.--