Correction to my last post:
I implied that EPS files will print directly on a PS-compatible printer. As
far as I know, that is not true; they have to be part of another document,
hence "encapsulated". PS files will print directly on a PS-compatible
printer.
Lee
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sayer, Bryan [SMTP:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 11:24 AM
> To: '[email protected]'
> Subject: st: RE: Re: graphics formats
>
> PCL printers (HP) will generally print pdf files using Adobe Acrobat
> Reader
> fine. Sometimes though all the text will run together, in which case one
> needs to switch to a PS printer. Most (if not all) of the newer HP
> printers
> have both PS and PCL (6 and 5e).
>
> Bryan Sayer
> Statistician, SSS Inc.
> [email protected]
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kit Baum [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 10:58 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: Re: graphics formats
>
>
> On Wednesday, Apr 2, 2003, at 02:33 US/Eastern, Lee wrote:
>
> > Unfortunately,
> > however, if you (or you publisher) do not have a PostScript compatible
> > printer, EPS/PS can not be printed. PDF is nice and there are lots of
> > EPS/PS
> > to PDF converters.
> >
> I doubt seriously that a non-PS printer will be able to do much with
> PDFs, since the PDF format can be considered a form of compressed
> PostScript. Agree that storing materials in PDF format -- if one
> properly embeds the fonts!!! -- is much preferable to sending the same
> file around in .ps format, which is much larger than optimized PDFs.
>
> Kit
>
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