The following header lines retained to affect attribution: |Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 15:34:53 +0000 |Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project |From: Sebastian Rahtz <[log in to unmask]> |Subject: Re: portable LaTeX |To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L |Hans Aberg writes: | > These are kind of examples that I am looking: One should work directly with | > an enhanced DVI, so that one does not get dependant on a long chain of | > fixes. |pdfTeX is a TeX version that implements an enhanced DVI, its called |PDF. you know, that language for which our dot-matrix-loving-friend |Herber can write drivers. there are two good, free, open source |implementations of PDF drivers to start from Dot matrix is not what I love. (I also own a NEC LC890 as I already mentioned which is an Adobe PostScript capable printer and is the mode in which I usually use that printer. Rather, it is the operating expense difference that caused me to use the NEC P6 Pinwriter until it died. A more accurate description is that I dislike PDF since, in my experience supporting about 400 scientists whom use print files in a variety of formats, generated by a variety of programs on a variety of platforms and which they expect to display and print faultlessly everywhere, PDF files seldom work properly. I admit that that fault may not be with the design of PDF but rather with the means by which they were generated. I seldom have trouble with DVI files. I disagree with your description of PDF as an enhanced DVI, based on that experience. If PDF is desired, then use a DVI to PDF converter. |now i ****promise**** not rise to any more baiting until next year Yes, your baiting is unwelcome. |sebastian Randolph J. Herber, [log in to unmask], +1 630 840 2966, CD/CDFTF PK-149F, Mail Stop 318, Fermilab, Kirk & Pine Rds., PO Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510-0500, USA. (Speaking for myself and not for US, US DOE, FNAL nor URA.) (Product, trade, or service marks herein belong to their respective owners.)