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

From	Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows
Date	2015-10-13 23:50 +0200
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On Tuesday 13 October 2015 19:37:34 Brian wrote:
> On Tue 13 Oct 2015 at 13:12:46 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Tuesday 13 October 2015 04:57:07 rlharris@oplink.net wrote:
> > > On Mon, October 12, 2015 9:16 pm, Don Armstrong wrote:
> > > > Use PDF instead of PS. That's the fool-proof method, and you get the
> > > > advantages of the PDF specification.
> > > >
> > > > [It's also probably time to move away from pdflatex to xelatex or
> > > > some other LaTeX engine with real utf8 support.]
> > >
> > > Thanks for bringing up the utf8 issue; I keep forgetting about it.
> > >
> > > But is the PDF file I produce with whatever is in Jessie likely to be
> > > readable by Windows XP or Vista?  I ask this because I have an older HP
> > > laserjet which cannot decipher Postscript Level 3.
> >
> > Surely the whole point of .pdf is that it is an open standard which
> > is "universal"?  And it has traditionally been easier to make use of from
> > Windows than from Linux.
> >
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format
>
> Try downloading this document and reading it with mupdf (or a Linux
> viewer of your choice).
>
>   wget
> https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/3
>73943/nrl1i.pdf
>
> 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. :)

:-)  

> I have a clear recollection of your having met this and asking about it
> on debian-user.

Yes, but it is usually soluble, and anyway, I thought that pdf was easier from 
Windows.  It used to be.  But I haven't used Windows for a very long time, so 
I may easily be wrong.

Lisi

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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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