-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 12:44:52PM -0500, Bob Tilley (AT&T) wrote: > Does an OSS PDF viewer exist or is a user expected to have Adobe > Acrobat? I mean something with more precision than xpdf. (I > believe that KPDF is only a container for xpdf. Please correct me > if this is not true.)
kpdf does a pretty good job on the pdfs I come across. > OSS office software exists (OpenOffice, KOffice, etc.) that can > produce PDF files. I am unaware of OSS viewers. For that matter, > how capable is the PDF exporter of KOffice? Pretty good. I've used it to send resumes to potential employers. I tend to prefer it, because I know the first thing they're going to do is print it out on US Letter size paper. PDFs print exactly as shown, office documents don't. > A more pertinent question may be: Does the Linux OS support the > display and printing of graphics with the precision of the MacOS? > (I use that as a standard against which to measure the precision and > cleanliness of printed/displayed material.) Yes, as of 1999, printing ability seemed limited only by the printer. And interning at a public school back in high school, I succeeded in setting lpr to work with Apple Imagewriters, HP LaserJet III's and IV's, and a variety of old Epson 9 and 25 pin color dot-matrix printers. They all work like a dream with magicfilter and lpr. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian. Because it *must* work. debian.org aboutdebian.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAUqpzUzgNqloQMwcRAsVlAKCyn2bxzZACpJVFhhGM1xMsmbB5jwCcCUmD TAo7WhuZXfnIaMf4mVmBqOc= =gNDZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
