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printerd modularizes Linux printingprinterd modularizes Linux printingPosted Jun 16, 2012 10:30 UTC (Sat) by liljencrantz (subscriber, #28458)In reply to: printerd modularizes Linux printing by nix Parent article: printerd modularizes Linux printing
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.
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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...
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