Re: [time-nuts] DJVU and PDF

2010-12-13 Thread Chuck Harris
Chris Albertson wrote: 2) Look at the developer documentation for Mac OSX's quartz graphic system. Very loosely, what you do is open a contex and then send PDF drawing comands to it. This can be directed to the screen of a file. The same is true of IOS devices like the iPad or iPod touch.

Re: [time-nuts] DJVU and PDF

2010-12-12 Thread Chuck Harris
Perry Sandeen wrote: ... I tried the free Open Office but the word processor did not have an un-do function (which I ALWAYS need) that I could find. On the main window frame up at the top: EDIT-UNDO or CTRL-Z In the preferences section, you can set how many levels of undo you wish to

Re: [time-nuts] DJVU and PDF

2010-12-12 Thread Chris Albertson
People _think_ they can't afford a Mac. But the total cost of ownership is actually lower. For example in this case with just the basic software that comes with Mac OSX you can create and edit PDF files, extract the images, cut out and copy the text and so on. PDF is the native display format

Re: [time-nuts] DJVU and PDF

2010-12-12 Thread Chuck Harris
Chris Albertson wrote: People _think_ they can't afford a Mac. But the total cost of ownership is actually lower. For example in this case with just the basic software that comes with Mac OSX you can create and edit PDF files, extract the images, cut out and copy the text and so on. PDF is

Re: [time-nuts] DJVU and PDF

2010-12-12 Thread Mike S
At 05:48 PM 12/12/2010, Chuck Harris wrote... Chris Albertson wrote: PDF is the native display format used by the Mac. No it isn't. Postscript is the standard internal language. It is also the internal language of Windows, and Linux. LOL. For someone who presumes to correct others, you

Re: [time-nuts] DJVU and PDF

2010-12-12 Thread Magnus Danielson
On 12/13/2010 12:33 AM, Mike S wrote: At 05:48 PM 12/12/2010, Chuck Harris wrote... Chris Albertson wrote: PDF is the native display format used by the Mac. No it isn't. Postscript is the standard internal language. It is also the internal language of Windows, and Linux. LOL. For someone

Re: [time-nuts] DJVU and PDF

2010-12-12 Thread Chuck Harris
Mike S wrote: At 05:48 PM 12/12/2010, Chuck Harris wrote... Chris Albertson wrote: PDF is the native display format used by the Mac. No it isn't. Postscript is the standard internal language. It is also the internal language of Windows, and Linux. LOL. For someone who presumes to correct

Re: [time-nuts] DJVU and PDF

2010-12-12 Thread Mike S
At 05:48 PM 12/12/2010, Chuck Harris wrote... Postscript is the standard internal language. It is also the internal language of Windows, and Linux. At 07:11 PM 12/12/2010, Chuck Harris wrote... My reference was to outputs from applications level programs. Very strange, then, that you'd

Re: [time-nuts] DJVU and PDF

2010-12-12 Thread Larry Snyder
This is not the place for this. -ls- mi...@flatsurface.com (Mike S) wrote: At 05:48 PM 12/12/2010, Chuck Harris wrote... Postscript is the standard internal language. It is also the internal language of Windows, and Linux. At 07:11 PM 12/12/2010, Chuck Harris wrote... My reference was to

Re: [time-nuts] DJVU and PDF

2010-12-12 Thread Mike S
So, once again, there's an extended discussion not even closely related to time. I apologize for getting involved. I can only hope that Mr. Ackerman steps in sooner next time, and is true to his previous words: Cute or fun as they may be, there's no place here for threads that aren't related

Re: [time-nuts] DJVU and PDF

2010-12-12 Thread William H. Fite
Now, now. Let's play nicely. On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Mike S mi...@flatsurface.com wrote: So, once again, there's an extended discussion not even closely related to time. I apologize for getting involved. I can only hope that Mr. Ackerman steps in sooner next time, and is true to

Re: [time-nuts] DJVU and PDF

2010-12-12 Thread Chris Albertson
It's worth reading the documentation. 1) PDF is now an ISO standard. Adobe created it but as of 2008 it is ISO. 2) Look at the developer documentation for Mac OSX's quartz graphic system. Very loosely, what you do is open a contex and then send PDF drawing comands to it. This can be directed

[time-nuts] DJVU and PDF

2010-12-11 Thread Perry Sandeen
List, I’ve been trying to do a little desktop publishing on the side for 25 years and have learned a lot mostly by trial and lots of errors. I was first multiple sand-bagged by MS. Either going to a new operating system or changing to a newer version of word changed the format of completed

Re: [time-nuts] DJVU and PDF

2010-12-11 Thread Steve Rooke
On 12/12/2010, Perry Sandeen sandee...@yahoo.com wrote: List, ... So what I do is create my documents in MS word and then convert them to PDF’s. I tried the free Open Office but the word processor did not have an un-do function (which I ALWAYS need) that I could find. So it seems to me