On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 06:16:11PM +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman uttered: > Op 15-05-10 14:43, Steve Fishpaste schreef: > > On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 01:08:43AM +0200, Michelle Konzack uttered: > >> Hello Steve Fishpaste, > >> > >> Am 2010-05-14 18:48:21, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > >>> There are some printers that use GNU/FLOSS to you know. 8) Got to be > >>> careful being so inclusive. There are many uses for PDFs other than > >>> for archival purposes. Printers for example take PDFs and often need to > >>> 'edit' > >>> them. That's where the original idea to have a PDF editor originated. > >> > >> For WHAT reason a printer need to EDIT a PDF? > > > > To edit it of course! That's why many printers have prepress departments. > > PDFs were originally used in the publishing world exclusively.... > I think there confusion between printers (the machines) and the people > that operate printers. The machines do not need pdf-editing > capabilities, the people operating the printers for you might.
I'm referring of course to such places/individuals as offset printing, lithography, the graphic arts; all industries which have traditionally used PDFs heavily before most people ever heard of the technology. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100516194343.ga25...@google.com
