Twisted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Jun 27, 8:26 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timofei Shatrov) wrote: >> >For which you need an interpreter. Such as Ghostscript. Which is a >> >pain to install and a bigger one to configure, even on Windoze. >> >> Lie. Ghostscript works out of the box on Windows. > > You're joking. First of all I am not a liar, and secondly, Ghostscript > and Ghostview are tricky to set up correctly. I know -- I've done it a > time or three. There's an arcane GUI configurator that isn't > exceptionally well designed, and once it's working it still wonks out > on maybe 1 in 10 .ps and .eps files you come across ...
It's become clear that you have a different conception of what consitutes "working" software. > better than being able to view none of them, mind you. Nonetheless > there's a world of difference between the GS tools and say Adobe > Acrobat Reader in terms of setup and use; the latter you just run an > installer and then find a pdf to double-click; no other steps > necessary and it works every time. Of course, Adobe stuff is > proprietary, and acrord supports some types of evil DRM... It's also become clear that you have a different conception of what constitutes using a computer. Joel -- Joel J. Adamson Biostatistician Pediatric Psychopharmacology Research Unit Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA 02114 (617) 643-1432 (303) 880-3109 *Joel's guide to sending attachments: 1. put all the files you want to send in a folder and archive the folder using tar, then compress it with gzip or bzip2 2. please send me .pdf, .html, or text in place of Word documents: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/sylvester-response.html *Did you know there's a FREE alternative to using word processors? http://www.edafe.org/latex/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX http://nitens.org/taraborelli/latex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
