[newbie] Printing
Richard A. O'Keefe
ok at atlas.otago.ac.nz
Tue Sep 12 00:53:09 UTC 2000
Both PS and PDF are extremely portable. PDF is a better format, but not
because it's available on more platforms.
I'm sorry to have to tell you that PDF is not at all portable.
Just yesterday I fetched a PDF file from America. It displayed
ok on the screen, but was garbled to the point of unreadability
on paper. This *often* happens. (One effect is that some printing
characters act like long-distance TABs.) Oh yes, it's Adobe's
very own Acrobat Reader that generates garbled Postscript...
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