25 Oct
2006
25 Oct
'06
10:36 p.m.
On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 19:40 -0400, Rob wrote:
On Wednesday 25 October 2006 16:40, Paul Davis wrote:
my family is well trained to consider only PDF as a portable "final"
image format. PostScript is an acceptable second. ODT, .tex, .doc are
all considered "unstable, in-progress formats". this is reinforced by
the kids' schools which use homework upload sites that accept PDFs (they
also accept .doc, but i tend not to call attention to that).
when my wife needs to print more gift certificates for her massage
therapy clients, or directions to a house party, or her resume for
another mosaic mural residency, she has PDF's finished and ready to go.
from the command line, its so easy, from a GUI, it seems more work than
it should be.
--p
coming from a command line background, it seems
ridiculous
that the file managers/browsers have all omitted to leverage
the power of lpr and its filter system.
You do realize that most office document and image formats are
not plain text, PDF or Postscript, right? Because for all of
lpr's power, those are the only common formats it handles as far
as I know, and running "my-resume.odt" through lpr will waste a
lot of paper pretty fast.