> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 9:36 AM > To: Price, Erik > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Greater New Hampshire LUG > Subject: Re: PDF vs. .doc [was Re: Boston Linux Conference > December 3-4 > ] > > Is this Mac OS X by chance?
That's what I meant by MacOS X. ;) >I wonder if all they're doing is exactly > the same as Windows/UNIX, printing to postscript, but then converting > on the fly to PDF? After all, OS X is BSD based, it would be trivial > to implement this kind of thing using ghostscript. I can't seem to find the answer to that. Once upon a time, I read somewhere the sentence "MacOS X uses PDF as a native display format" but never since have I been able to find out what that means (or even that same statement again). So whether all printable output is turned to a PDF before being displayed or whether it's done only when a user chooses to save as a PDF, I don't have the answer. Perhaps someone else on this list does. > If this is Mac OS X, you might want to get an xterm or shell window > up and look for things like ps2pdf, pdf2ps, gs/ghostscript, etc. It > wouldn't suprise me at all if they're already available. I'll have to check it out when I get home, but even if they aren't, I do know that the Fink project has ported these applications to install easily via dselect on MacOS X (<http://fink.sourceforge.net/>). Erik _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss