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