Re: Free Ruby eBook

In article <b1vd5d4swgg.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Nelu <spamahead@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
blmblm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <blmblm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

In article <1150720084.658152.296030@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Rob Thorpe <robert.thorpe@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[ snip ]

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.


Hadn't noticed this, but if so it's not good news, especially in light
of Adobe's track record with regard to releasing new versions of its
reader for Unix-like platforms.

I've been moving my own Web-published stuff from PostScript to PDF,
in the assumption that the latter was more likely to be viewable to
people on all platforms. Going back to PostScript -- I'd think it
would be polite to tell people what to do if their computers don't
know what to do with a .ps file? Advice? I seem to remember that
there *are* free-of-charge PostScript viewers for most popular
platforms, but I suspect most Windows users won't have one installed
and so would need to be pointed to .... what?


I think it depends on what you are using to create pdfs. If you use
ps2pdf or pdflatex there shouldn't be any problem reading your pdfs
with any reader. The same goes for OpenOffice.org.


Thanks, but that really wasn't my point -- I was thinking more
along the lines of "how can I help make PostScript a more widely-used
format?"

--
B. L. Massingill
ObDisclaimer: I don't speak for my employers; they return the favor.
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