Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows
Hi.
On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 22:54:01 +0100
Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tue 13 Oct 2015 at 22:40:24 +0300, Reco wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 19:37:34 +0100
> > Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> > >
> > > 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/373943/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. :)
> >
> > Or, in this particular case, not all PDF viewers conform to the
> > standard. Embedding Javascript (or, $DEITY forbid, Flash) into PDF was
> > possible since PDF 1.5 IIRC, and embedded Javascript (or rather, lack
> > of support of) is the reason that this particular PDF should only show
> > meaningless "Upgrade your Acrobat Reader" page in anything other than
> > Adobe Acrobat Reader.
>
> The PDF contains Adobe XML Forms Architecture (XFA), a proprietary and
> non-ISO implementation. What standard do Linux viewers have to adopt to
> view it?
The lack of standards in a respective area did not stop OpenOffice
project (or Gnash, or Samba) back in the day.
Whenever libpoppler (or xpdf, or mupdf) should support XFA is a
different story.
> Not all PDFs are created equal.
True.
Reco
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