On May 7, 2014, at 10:25 AM, Jerrad Pierce <[email protected]> wrote:
> I was curious and searched the web for postscript quoted-printable, > it seems to be a common enough treatment with occasional bugs here > and there. Also, despite PS/EPS/PDF being so similar, it seems that > at somepoint someone declared PS is a text format but PDF is binary. The original Postscript printers almost always talked to their hosts over RS-232 serial links, and 7bits+parity was quite common. Therefore, programs that generated Postscript invariably produced 7bit clean output. PDF never faced such challenges, and has always been a binary format. --lyndon
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