Subject: Re: HOWTO

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Henry Hartley" <henryhartley at westat.com>
To: "'For testers of Fedora Core development releases'"
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Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 3:35 PM
Subject: RE: Subject: Re: HOWTO


> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Nico Kadel-Garcia [mailto:nkadel at merl.com]
> >> Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 3:23 PM
> >>
> >> The idea that PDF is meant for printing is a common misconception.
> >> It's a "Portable Display Format", not a "Portable Printing Format".
>
> Actually, PDF is "Portable *Document* Format"

Thank you, I appreciate the correction.

It's still a silly format for a lot of uses, and vulnerable to crashing both
printers and computers due to its heavily proprietary format. I actually
urge my poor Windows users to use the Linux CUPS print server instead of the
Windows print server when printing such documents crashes their own system.
(Moo-ha-ha!)