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

[Adrian O'Dell <crimsonmane@gmail.com>]

Never tell a business partner to change.

On 10/13/2015 02:45 PM, Mario Castelán Castro wrote:
> El 13/10/15 a las 14:38, Brian escribió:
> > On Tue 13 Oct 2015 at 14:04:44 -0500, rlharris@oplink.net wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, October 13, 2015 1:37 pm, Brian wrote:
> > > > There may be an ISO standard for a PDF but not all PDF's conform to 
> > > > the
> > > > standard. Don't forget: standards are good; everyone can have one. :)
> > >
> > > You make a good point, which I overlooked.  My concern was that PDF 
> > > might
> > > have been "enhanced" over the years, similar to the enhancement of
> > > Postscript by the introduction of Postscript levels 2 and 3.
> >
> > That wasn't quite my point, but it doesn't matter.
> >
> > I receive .doc and .docx documents. The senders assume I can read them.
> > What do I do? Complain to them or just deal with it. Fortunately, Debian
> > makes it relatively easy to take the latter course of action. Why foul
> > up a relationship?
>
> It's a good opportunity to educate those senders about the importance 
> of free formats. If we want people to adopt free software more, we 
> should work for it, making people aware of the problems of proprietary 
> software and its formats, and advice them to switch to free software.