2010/7/10 Michael Talbot-Wilson <m...@view.net.au>: > Running I think any browser on any Linux system, if I see a PDF file > on the Web and click on print, and then print to a file, I > automatically finish up with a .ps file. Which I can display with gv. > The PDF format was all the time redundant.
No. Only nobody puts a PDF RIP into consumer printers. The situation is completely reversed with printing houses: There you will have problems getting PostScript printed. > I'm not competent to debate the merits of PDF versus PS but I know > what I want. :-) > I would like the high-level conveniences of ConTeXt, the ones I > mentioned, but they don't supersede the rest. The ConTeXt team will not spend much effort (if any) to make MkIV run with dvi(ps). So stop whining and show us your patches. :-) > "In DVI mode, luaTeX can be used as a complete replacement for the > TeX engine." Yes. But MkIV needs much more then DVI and currently aims at PDF. Best Martin ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
