Christopher Smith wrote:
On 15-Oct-08, at 15-Oct-08 11:56 AM, John Howell wrote:
At 8:08 AM -0400 10/15/08, dhbailey wrote:
I can think of lots of reasons to send PDF files -- they can't be
easily edited, everybody's computer has Acrobat Reader on it by now,
and there are fewer hoops to jump through to print the files out and
start playing the music.
Agreed. But one of those hoops can be the difference between U.S.
letter and A4 paper size. That occasionally bites me when I download
music from German websites and the margins aren't compatible. And
I've even run into it with Asian students who have their computers set
for A4 paper (and probably have their own printers, although where
they get the paper I have no idea!). When I send one of those files
to our departmental printer it recognizes that it needs A4 and sits
there patiently waiting for someone to feed it, but we don't HAVE any!
This might be one of those platform differences. There is a setting on
Macs that lets you print a PDF any size at all, including "fit to paper
size" so the odd sized sheets will print with the least margins possible.
Same on Windows machines.
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David H. Bailey
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