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Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows

From Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows
Date 2015-10-13 22:00 +0200
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El 13/10/15 a las 14:38, Brian escribió:
> On Tue 13 Oct 2015 at 14:04:44 -0500, rlharris@oplink.net wrote:
>
>> On Tue, October 13, 2015 1:37 pm, Brian wrote:
>>> There may be an ISO standard for a PDF but not all PDF's conform to the
>>> standard. Don't forget: standards are good; everyone can have one. :)
>>
>> You make a good point, which I overlooked.  My concern was that PDF might
>> have been "enhanced" over the years, similar to the enhancement of
>> Postscript by the introduction of Postscript levels 2 and 3.
>
> That wasn't quite my point, but it doesn't matter.
>
> I receive .doc and .docx documents. The senders assume I can read them.
> What do I do? Complain to them or just deal with it. Fortunately, Debian
> makes it relatively easy to take the latter course of action. Why foul
> up a relationship?

It's a good opportunity to educate those senders about the importance of 
free formats. If we want people to adopt free software more, we should 
work for it, making people aware of the problems of proprietary software 
and its formats, and advice them to switch to free software.

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print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-10-13 04:10 +0200
  Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> - 2015-10-13 04:20 +0200
    Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-10-13 06:00 +0200
      Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-10-13 14:20 +0200
        Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows Joseph Loo <jloo20111002@gmail.com> - 2015-10-13 14:30 +0200
          Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-10-13 19:40 +0200
            Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows Joseph Loo <jloo20111002@gmail.com> - 2015-10-14 04:40 +0200
        Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-10-13 20:40 +0200
          Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-10-13 21:10 +0200
            Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-10-13 21:40 +0200
              Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows Adrian O'Dell <crimsonmane@gmail.com> - 2015-10-13 22:00 +0200
                Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> - 2015-10-13 23:00 +0200
                Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-10-13 23:50 +0200
                Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> - 2015-10-14 00:30 +0200
                Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-10-14 00:40 +0200
              Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> - 2015-10-13 22:00 +0200
          Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2015-10-13 21:50 +0200
            Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-10-14 00:00 +0200
              Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2015-10-14 09:20 +0200
          Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-10-13 23:50 +0200
            Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-10-14 00:30 +0200
              Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-10-14 00:30 +0200
              Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-10-14 00:40 +0200
              Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-10-14 00:40 +0200
      Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> - 2015-10-13 16:50 +0200
  Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2015-10-13 04:30 +0200
    Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-10-13 06:20 +0200
      Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows Stuart Longland <stuartl@longlandclan.id.au> - 2015-10-13 06:20 +0200
        Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-10-13 07:50 +0200
          Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2015-10-13 09:40 +0200
          Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows Stuart Longland <stuartl@longlandclan.id.au> - 2015-10-13 11:20 +0200
        Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-10-14 04:00 +0200
    Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2015-10-13 09:30 +0200

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