Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: PDF generation?
should have included this in previous... On Jun 5, 2010, at 10:37 , Maciej Piechotka wrote: For example PDF can have hyper-links (both to local and external content). It can be scripted in JavaScript (don't ask me why) and can have form (OK. So I can fill them and print probably). The only thing that stops PostScript from doing this is that it's almost always used with devices where neither feature is useful. Indeed, PostScript is fully network capable in theory; in practice I doubt many printers implement the entire I/O model. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allb...@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allb...@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon universityKF8NH PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: PDF generation?
On 6 June 2010 00:37, Maciej Piechotka wrote: > > PDF is not just simplified, compressed encoding of PostScript. Or at > least - LaTeX have some features PDF-only. > > For example PDF can have hyper-links (both to local and external > content). It can be scripted in JavaScript (don't ask me why) and can > have form (OK. So I can fill them and print probably). The form stuff is also for online submission, and the javascript allows editing of what is possible. For example (requires Adobe Reader plugin, which I don't have and thus haven't seen it myself) this form (I believe) auto-fills in some details and saves a copy online, etc.: https://forms.australia.gov.au/forms/aec/Electoral%20enrolment/ > > Regards > > ___ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > > -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: PDF generation?
On Jun 5, 2010, at 10:37 , Maciej Piechotka wrote:
PDF is not just simplified, compressed encoding of PostScript. Or at
least - LaTeX have some features PDF-only.
I think that has more to do with the fact that pdftex/pdflatex is
tightly integrated with a dvi converter that understands many PDF-
specific \special{}s.
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[Haskell-cafe] Re: PDF generation?
On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 21:45 +0300, Yitzchak Gale wrote: > I wrote: > >> I have often generated PostScript from Haskell... > >> Then you convert the PS to PDF using any of the nice > >> utilities around for that > > Pierre-Etienne Meunier wrote: > > Isn't there a problem with non-type 1 vectorial fonts being > > rasterized during this conversion ? > > No. > > PDF is just a simplified, compressed encoding of PostScript. > Unless there is some special reason to do so, why would > a conversion utility go to the trouble of rasterizing fonts > instead of just copying them in? > > Perhaps something like ImageMagick might do that; its > internal format is a raster. > > Regards, > Yitz PDF is not just simplified, compressed encoding of PostScript. Or at least - LaTeX have some features PDF-only. For example PDF can have hyper-links (both to local and external content). It can be scripted in JavaScript (don't ask me why) and can have form (OK. So I can fill them and print probably). Regards signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
