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printerd modularizes Linux printingprinterd modularizes Linux printingPosted Jun 14, 2012 5:17 UTC (Thu) by thedevil (subscriber, #32913)Parent article: printerd modularizes Linux printing
Emacs can generate PostScript. Can it generate PDF?
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printerd modularizes Linux printing Posted Jun 14, 2012 12:39 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
No. TeX would need some work, too -- it can generate PDF these days, but PDF is not normally its expected output format for printing.
printerd modularizes Linux printing Posted Jun 14, 2012 18:26 UTC (Thu) by jonabbey (subscriber, #2736) [Link]
As would the invaluable a2ps. But there are PS to PDF converters.
printerd modularizes Linux printing Posted Jun 15, 2012 1:50 UTC (Fri) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link]
I, and most people I know, use pdflatex because it can embed nearly any image format.
printerd modularizes Linux printing Posted Jun 16, 2012 10:30 UTC (Sat) by liljencrantz (subscriber, #28458) [Link]
Really? I was under the impression that pdflatex more or less completely replaced dvi as the standard TeX output format nearly a decade ago. Simple usage of common image formats, full support for the fonts people actually need to use these days, nice interactive features like hyperlinks.
Why would anyone cling to dvi anymore? Metafont isn't *that* awesome.
printerd modularizes Linux printing Posted Jun 18, 2012 8:05 UTC (Mon) by valhalla (subscriber, #56634) [Link]
There are still a few packages that use pstricks and won't work with pdflatex; I use one of those (pst-barcode) to print qrcodes on labels and I have to go throught dvi->ps.
You can still get pdf by adding ps2pdf to the toolchain, of course; I just don't bother with it because my printer is perfectly happy to accept the resulting postscript, but I know I'm in a minority in that.
printerd modularizes Linux printing Posted Jun 18, 2012 22:32 UTC (Mon) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link]
Compare the amount of resource needed to display DVI and PDF for the same document...
printerd modularizes Linux printing Posted Jun 16, 2012 13:41 UTC (Sat) by boog (subscriber, #30882) [Link]
Xe(La)TeX, whose use is becoming quite widespread because it uses utf-8, compiles to pdf also.
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