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Re: is xdvi broken?

From	rlharris@oplink.net
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: is xdvi broken?
Date	2019-04-21 10:00 +0200
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On 2019.04.21 02:31, rlharris@oplink.net wrote:
> On 2019.04.20 19:42, David Wright wrote:
>> So you expect that visitors can print from PDFs but you print locally
>> with PS. Any reason?

Kindly forgive my deficiency in the field of reading comprehension.  I 
finally understand your question.

I expect visitors to print from PDF.  I think few of them would know 
what to do with a DVI file, and I think few have a Postscript printer.

However, my laser printers always have been Postscript, and someone long 
ago introduced me to the "dvips" utility.

Inasmuch as I print many things, and I need PDF documents only for 
publication, I normally execute dvips and lpr, unless the document needs 
to be PDF.

That seems to me more simple and more direct than routinely to produce 
PDF and then routinely to convert PDF to Postscript for printing.  Am I 
misunderstanding something?

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is xdvi broken? rlharris@oplink.net - 2019-04-16 21:10 +0200
  Re: is xdvi broken? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2019-04-16 21:30 +0200
    Re: is xdvi broken? rlharris@oplink.net - 2019-04-16 22:30 +0200
      Re: is xdvi broken? Kushal Kumaran <kushal@locationd.net> - 2019-04-17 02:30 +0200
        Re: is xdvi broken? rlharris@oplink.net - 2019-04-17 05:20 +0200
          Re: is xdvi broken? Kushal Kumaran <kushal@locationd.net> - 2019-04-17 19:40 +0200
            Re: is xdvi broken? rlharris@oplink.net - 2019-04-17 20:30 +0200
              Re: is xdvi broken? rlharris@oplink.net - 2019-04-19 23:20 +0200
                Re: is xdvi broken? Étienne Mollier <etienne.mollier@mailoo.org> - 2019-04-20 00:40 +0200
                Re: is xdvi broken? rlharris@oplink.net - 2019-04-20 01:20 +0200
                Re: is xdvi broken? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-04-20 03:30 +0200
                Re: is xdvi broken? rlharris@oplink.net - 2019-04-20 05:40 +0200
                Re: is xdvi broken? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-04-20 10:00 +0200
                Re: is xdvi broken? Étienne Mollier <etienne.mollier@mailoo.org> - 2019-04-20 11:50 +0200
                Re: is xdvi broken? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-04-21 02:50 +0200
                Re: is xdvi broken? rlharris@oplink.net - 2019-04-21 09:40 +0200
                Re: is xdvi broken? rlharris@oplink.net - 2019-04-21 10:00 +0200
                Re: is xdvi broken? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-04-22 03:50 +0200
                Re: is xdvi broken? rlharris@oplink.net - 2019-04-22 07:20 +0200
                Re: is xdvi broken? Bill Wood <william.wood3@comcast.net> - 2019-04-22 09:00 +0200
                Re: is xdvi broken? rlharris@oplink.net - 2019-04-22 10:10 +0200
                Re: is xdvi broken? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-04-22 10:40 +0200
                Re: is xdvi broken? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-04-22 21:00 +0200
                Re: is xdvi broken? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-04-22 05:20 +0200
                Re: is xdvi broken? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-04-20 15:00 +0200

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