From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,de0abe9655235740 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-10 19:59:52 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!eusc.inter.net!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-duisburg.de!not-for-mail From: Georg Bauhaus Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ACM Ada Letters Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 02:59:52 +0000 (UTC) Organization: GMUGHDU Sender: Georg Bauhaus Message-ID: References: <1065708924.347689@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <3F864440.7070203@noplace.com> <3F86AC81.4050500@noplace.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de X-Trace: a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de 1065841192 17053 134.91.1.34 (11 Oct 2003 02:59:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-duisburg.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 02:59:52 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/1.5.8-20010221 ("Blue Water") (UNIX) (HP-UX/B.11.00 (9000/800)) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:652 Date: 2003-10-11T02:59:52+00:00 List-Id: Georg Bauhaus wrote: : Stephen Leake wrote: : : : : I'm not clear that PDF would solve the problem of the printer having a : : different character set. It would be interesting to find out. : : It should sove the problem, and I should add that if you own a recent Mac computer with Mac OS X, you get PDF printing for free. (Just checked with a simple text editting tool called TextEdit. This is all plausible because Mac graphics is modelled around PDF internally, reusing NextStep, as it seems.) Georg