2 Jun
2005
2 Jun
'05
7:03 p.m.
Randy McLaughlin <cctalk at randy482.com> wrote:
We should make a list of what users are unable to view
PDF's, starting with
Tony how many others have no practical method of viewing a PDF or a friend
with a compatible system?
/me raises hand
The only thing I can do with a PDF file is to convert it to PostScript.
I then send PS to my printer over a 19200 baud serial line.
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.
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
against humanity just like closed source software and should be subject
to the same penalty ("rasstrel na meste bez suda i sledstviya" in
Russian).
MS