Okular moving

Kuba Ober kuba at mareimbrium.org
Wed Nov 29 21:52:30 GMT 2006


> "Viewer" and "Editor" of course should share the maximum amount of
> code; ideally, a running "viewer" would transform itself into an
> editor by loading the additional functionality at run-time as needed.
>
> Linux printing is moving towards PDF as its central spooling file
> format.

Hmm, it was postscript for a long time, so basically it implies just another 
layer of indirection: most unix apps print to postscript, which would then be 
dumbed down to pdf, which would then be rasterized using -- most likely -- a 
postscript application.

Cheers, Kuba




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