Sources for 8b TTL keyboards (Keytronics)
John Floren
slawmaster at gmail.com
Mon Dec 15 16:42:50 CST 2008
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Alexander Schreiber
<als at thangorodrim.de> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 05:58:35PM -0500, der Mouse wrote:
>> > 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.
>
> 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.
That's why I always just send people straight troff documents! Now to
find out why that company hasn't gotten back to me about the resume I
sent in...
John
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