Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows
On Tuesday 13 October 2015 19:37:34 Brian wrote:
> On Tue 13 Oct 2015 at 13:12:46 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > 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
>
> Try downloading this document and reading it with mupdf (or a Linux
> viewer of your choice).
>
> wget
> https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/3
>73943/nrl1i.pdf
>
> 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. :)
:-)
> I have a clear recollection of your having met this and asking about it
> on debian-user.
Yes, but it is usually soluble, and anyway, I thought that pdf was easier from
Windows. It used to be. But I haven't used Windows for a very long time, so
I may easily be wrong.
Lisi
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