PDF vs. .doc [was Re: Boston Linux Conference December 3-4 ]

[Erik Price]

On Monday, November 25, 2002, at 09:36  AM, pll at lanminds.com wrote:

> This sounds similar to the 'Print to file' option honored by most
> apps under Windows/UNIX, the only real difference is that this option
> prints to a PS file, not a PDF.
>
> Is this Mac OS X by chance?  I wonder if all they're doing is exactly
> the same as Windows/UNIX, printing to postscript, but then converting
> on the fly to PDF?  After all, OS X is BSD based, it would be trivial
> to implement this kind of thing using ghostscript.

Not to beat a dead horse by going back to an old thread, but I chanced 
upon this page which goes into greater detail about the built-in PDF 
features of OS X, details which escaped my memory earlier this week:

http://www.arstechnica.com/reviews/1q00/macos-x-gui/macos-x-gui-4.html

(Deep link to the relevant part of a multi-page article.  Beginning of 
article here: 
http://www.arstechnica.com/reviews/1q00/macos-x-gui/macos-x-gui-1.html )


Erik





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