14 Dec
2008
14 Dec
'08
8:25 a.m.
On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 05:58:35PM -0500, der Mouse wrote:
Tell that to the guys who were running print shops and got handed
PostScript files by their clients. It is amazing how different PS
can look on different display/print environments. That was one of the
reaons for PDF and more specifically for the restricted PDF subset
that is designed to guarantee full WYSIWYG from editing to printout.
Turns out, that is harder than one would naively expect ...
Regards,
Alex.
--
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and
looks like work." -- Thomas A. Edison
In other
words, PDF is like PS except that it isn't supposed to be
machine dependent (which PS tends to be).
PS isn't supposed to be machine dependent either. In fact it rather
goes out of its way to make it difficult to be machine dependent,
unless you just punt and use nonstandard words defined
idiosyncratically by the PS engine you're using.