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PDF export is old
PDF export is old
Posted Mar 9, 2006 15:46 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)In reply to: pdf and flash export by kh
Parent article: The next generation office suite
What? PDF export is anything but innovative -- Mac OS X has had the ability to print to PDF from every single program that supports printing since the first release in 2000. Of course the graphics engine uses PDF, but anyway. And Adobe has had similar products (Distiller) for even longer.
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PDF export is old
Posted Mar 10, 2006 0:20 UTC (Fri) by njhurst (guest, #6022) [Link]
And latex has been doing pdf since before the begining of time. Indeed unix software in general prints to ps, and pdf is automatically an option with things like ps2pdf. MacOSX is a relatively late comer to this party.
PDF export is old
Posted Mar 10, 2006 7:14 UTC (Fri) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]
In fact, Mac OS X is a newcomer to all parties; its antecessor NeXT had Display Postscript at its graphics core, so I guess exporting to PDF must have been easy (I haven't used it myself though).