On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 17:27:26 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 02:39:29PM +0000, Camaleón wrote: >> On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 23:23:14 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> >> >> >> No major application on the popular DEs outputs PostScript when >> >> printing. >> > >> > I was trying to point out that a PS printer is also a PDF printer. >> >> And better than PDF, I'd say. >> >> PostScript specification is by far a more professionally-oriented >> language that PDF format (aside comment: last time I checked you could >> embed a 3D video animation on a PDF sheet and all kind of >> "dynamicallities"... geez!). > > No, while PDF does perhaps allow such things, it's far far better than > PostScript.
(...) PostScript is a languge for machines not for human beings. It does not have to be "easy" but "accurate". One only have to read the full specification manual of both to start guessing "why" (hint: one of them has around 200 less pages) :-) (note that I don't want my printer to "read" but "interpret" the document I am sending it exactly "as is" and PS complexity is precisely for doing so) > PDF/A is normally used for printing--it's the sensible subset without > all the pointless bells and whistles. PDF is the successor to > PostScript, which eliminates the mistakes of the format (being fully > programmable, and lacking in many modern features), while adding a few > of its own (stupid additional features). Ignore those extra features, > and it's a much, much better solution than PostScript. You say "successor", I read "simplification" and simplifying has always its drawbacks and lots of backward incompatibilities. Sorry, but my reluctancy is because PDF was born for a completely different work (mainly presentation and document [compa|porta]tibility), not to be editable nor for printer machines. If PDF wants to become a valid successor of PS it will have to pass the usual ~10 years to proof its validity in the real world >:-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jurtlk$tcf$1...@dough.gmane.org
