From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How are Windows users supposed to print the PostScript refcards? Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:18:57 +0900 Message-ID: References: <873aysl28i.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87myx0z2ht.fsf@lrde.org> <87odhcfexo.fsf@lrde.org> <87d4xrg0sz.fsf@lrde.org> <874pizdccu.fsf@lrde.org> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1187583585 20463 80.91.229.12 (20 Aug 2007 04:19:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 04:19:45 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 20 06:19:42 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IMyjr-0001wn-Nf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 06:19:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IMyjr-0002wj-68 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 00:19:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IMyjN-0002lv-Dz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 00:19:09 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IMyjL-0002lE-Rl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 00:19:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IMyjL-0002l7-NP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 00:19:07 -0400 Original-Received: from tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.206]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IMyjK-0003dq-5A; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 00:19:06 -0400 Original-Received: from relay31.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.54]) by tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp (8.13.8/8.13.4) with ESMTP id l7K4IlKf004793; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:18:57 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from relay31.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.20] [10.29.19.20]) by relay31.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:18:57 +0900 Original-Received: from dhapc248.dev.necel.com ([10.114.98.116] [10.114.98.116]) by relay31.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:18:57 +0900 Original-Received: by dhapc248.dev.necel.com (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 5BE624DA; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:18:57 +0900 (JST) System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: (Glenn Morris's message of "Sun\, 19 Aug 2007 22\:18\:29 -0400") Original-Lines: 16 X-Detected-Kernel: Solaris 8 (1) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:76804 Archived-At: Glenn Morris writes: > Personally I think that's a waste of time and disk space. I would just > change them all to pdf now and be done with it. Some of them never had > any ps version in CVS at all, just the tex, and no-one ever > complained, AFAIK. pdf is better for Windows and Mac (AFAIK), and any > sane GNU/Linux system can handle pdf or tex just fine. I think in many cases PDFs are better supported than postscript on GNU/Linux too. Postscript is a lovely and elegant language, but it's pretty clear where the development effort is going these days... -Miles -- We are all lying in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. -Oscar Wilde