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At 01:57 PM 6/25/2003 -0400, Todd Kueny wrote:
Its seems by your definition that a PDF which prints correctly on one of these devices is BROKEN and a PDF which does not print but is acceptable within the context of the PDF Standard is not BROKEN.
ANY PDF that does not conform to the PDF Reference (for WHATEVER REASON), is by definition "broken". I don't care if it work in Acrobat, Xpdf, Ghostscript or Billy-Bob's RIP - it's still broken.
This is something that we are VERY concerned about on the PDF/A committee and are working hard to make sure that all the ambiguities of the PDF Ref are tightened down...
I suggest the more constructive approach of complaining to Adobe that the PDF standard is BROKEN because it doesn't support what is "standard practice" in the industry
Nope, standard practice is NOT the way to do standards! Standards need to stand on their own and then be implemented correctly by vendors. The mess that is HTML is a perfect example of this...
Leonard
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