Re: Free Ruby eBook

Roberto Waltman wrote:
Richard Heathfield wrote:
Randy Howard said:
Richard Heathfield wrote
(in article <BoWdnd53m9twxwnZRVny1w@xxxxxx>):

Randy Howard said:
...
I thought you refused to play with pdf files.

I don't like them, that's for sure.

My mistake, I thought I recalled you being MUCH more ardently
opposed to them.

.... I am still hoping he'll provide it in a portable document format instead of PDF.

Need to remember that line ;)
No doubt you know this, but for other's benefit: if you'd rather use
Ghostscript than a PDF viewer, it is trivial to convert a PDF file to
postscript by just "printing" to a postscript printer and saving the
output file. (It may be necessary to edit out a couple lines that set
printer modes, etc. )

I occasionally do it when I get a PDF document that uses features
available only in the latest and bloatedest versions of Acrobat
reader: PDF --> postscript --> back to PDF but at a level suitable
for Acrobat versions 3 or 4. (That's for work, were I must use a
Windows OS. At home I am quite happy with xpdf and evince under Linux)

It's only trivial for now. Adobe are putting a lot of work into making
the PDF format very complicated to stop other readers from being able
to reliably read it.

This work is starting to pay off, I quite often find PDF files that
Ghostscript cannot open these days.

.

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