Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows

Hi. On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 22:54:01 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Tue 13 Oct 2015 at 22:40:24 +0300, Reco wrote: > > > On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 19:37:34 +0100 > > Brian wrote: > > > > > > Try downloading this document and reading it with mupdf (or a Linux > > > viewer of your choice). > > > > > >

Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows

On 10/13/2015 10:34 AM, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Tue, October 13, 2015 7:26 am, Joseph Loo wrote: >> have you tried installing >> ghostscript on your windows machine? It will convert ps and possibly pdf to >> pcl or some other printers they have drivers for. > > Ghostscript is one of the fi

Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows

On Mon, October 12, 2015 11:15 pm, Stuart Longland wrote: > There's also a Windows port of Evince. Stuart, As a test, I found a running Windows 7 system with printer. I downloaded Evince and installed it without difficulty. Then I viewed a PDF document and printed it, without having to do any c

Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows

El 13/10/15 a las 16:42, Lisi Reisz escribió: On Tuesday 13 October 2015 21:52:02 Mario Castelán Castro wrote: El 13/10/15 a las 14:55, Adrian O'Dell escribió: Never tell a business partner to change. One of the problems of society is that it is driven by economic interests, and more often th

Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows

On Tue 13 Oct 2015 at 23:29:43 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 13 October 2015 23:24:40 Brian wrote: > > On Tue 13 Oct 2015 at 22:39:58 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Tuesday 13 October 2015 19:37:34 Brian wrote: > > > > There may be an ISO standard for a PDF but not all PDF's conform to

Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows

On Tue 13 Oct 2015 at 17:23:22 -0500, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: > El 13/10/15 a las 16:42, Lisi Reisz escribió: > >On Tuesday 13 October 2015 21:52:02 Mario Castelán Castro wrote: > >>El 13/10/15 a las 14:55, Adrian O'Dell escribió: > >>>Never tell a business partner to change. > >> > >>One of

Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows

On Tuesday 13 October 2015 23:24:40 Brian wrote: > On Tue 13 Oct 2015 at 22:39:58 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Tuesday 13 October 2015 19:37:34 Brian wrote: > > > There may be an ISO standard for a PDF but not all PDF's conform to the > > > standard. Don't forget: standards are good; everyone ca

Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows

On Tue 13 Oct 2015 at 23:24:40 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Tue 13 Oct 2015 at 22:39:58 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Tuesday 13 October 2015 19:37:34 Brian wrote: > > > > > > There may be an ISO standard for a PDF but not all PDF's conform to the > > > standard. Don't forget: standards are good;

Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows

On Tue 13 Oct 2015 at 22:39:58 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 13 October 2015 19:37:34 Brian wrote: > > > > There may be an ISO standard for a PDF but not all PDF's conform to the > > standard. Don't forget: standards are good; everyone can have one. :) > > :-) > > > I have a clear reco

Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows

El 13/10/15 a las 14:55, Adrian O'Dell escribió: Never tell a business partner to change. One of the problems of society is that it is driven by economic interests, and more often than not, the interests which govern behavior are those of megacorporations (employers) instead of individuals. W

Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows

On Tue 13 Oct 2015 at 22:40:24 +0300, Reco wrote: > On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 19:37:34 +0100 > Brian wrote: > > > > Try downloading this document and reading it with mupdf (or a Linux > > viewer of your choice). > > > > wget > > https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/

Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows

On Tuesday 13 October 2015 21:52:02 Mario Castelán Castro wrote: > El 13/10/15 a las 14:55, Adrian O'Dell escribió: > > Never tell a business partner to change. > > One of the problems of society is that it is driven by economic > interests, and more often than not, the interests which govern behav

Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows

On Tuesday 13 October 2015 19:37:34 Brian wrote: > On Tue 13 Oct 2015 at 13:12:46 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Tuesday 13 October 2015 04:57:07 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > > > On Mon, October 12, 2015 9:16 pm, Don Armstrong wrote: > > > > Use PDF instead of PS. That's the fool-proof method, and

Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows

El 13/10/15 a las 14:38, Brian escribió: On Tue 13 Oct 2015 at 14:04:44 -0500, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: On Tue, October 13, 2015 1:37 pm, Brian wrote: There may be an ISO standard for a PDF but not all PDF's conform to the standard. Don't forget: standards are good; everyone can have one. :)

Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows

Never tell a business partner to change. On 10/13/2015 02:45 PM, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: El 13/10/15 a las 14:38, Brian escribió: On Tue 13 Oct 2015 at 14:04:44 -0500, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: On Tue, October 13, 2015 1:37 pm, Brian wrote: There may be an ISO standard for a PDF but not

Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows

Hi. On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 19:37:34 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Tue 13 Oct 2015 at 13:12:46 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Tuesday 13 October 2015 04:57:07 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > > > On Mon, October 12, 2015 9:16 pm, Don Armstrong wrote: > > > > Use PDF instead of PS. That's the fool-

Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows

On Tue 13 Oct 2015 at 14:04:44 -0500, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Tue, October 13, 2015 1:37 pm, Brian wrote: > > There may be an ISO standard for a PDF but not all PDF's conform to the > > standard. Don't forget: standards are good; everyone can have one. :) > > You make a good point, which

Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows

On Tue, October 13, 2015 1:37 pm, Brian wrote: > There may be an ISO standard for a PDF but not all PDF's conform to the > standard. Don't forget: standards are good; everyone can have one. :) You make a good point, which I overlooked. My concern was that PDF might have been "enhanced" over the y

Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows

On Tue 13 Oct 2015 at 13:12:46 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 13 October 2015 04:57:07 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > > On Mon, October 12, 2015 9:16 pm, Don Armstrong wrote: > > > Use PDF instead of PS. That's the fool-proof method, and you get the > > > advantages of the PDF specification.

Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows

On Tue, October 13, 2015 7:26 am, Joseph Loo wrote: > have you tried installing > ghostscript on your windows machine? It will convert ps and possibly pdf to > pcl or some other printers they have drivers for. Ghostscript is one of the first solutions which occurred to me. I found a HOWTO, but it

Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows

On Mon, 12 Oct 2015, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > But is the PDF file I produce with whatever is in Jessie likely to be > readable by Windows XP or Vista? Yes, assuming they have installed acrobat reader (or similar), which is basically a requirement. -- Don Armstrong http:/

Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows

On 10/13/2015 05:12 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 13 October 2015 04:57:07 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: >> On Mon, October 12, 2015 9:16 pm, Don Armstrong wrote: >>> Use PDF instead of PS. That's the fool-proof method, and you get the >>> advantages of the PDF specification. >>> >>> [It's also p

Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows

On Tuesday 13 October 2015 04:57:07 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Mon, October 12, 2015 9:16 pm, Don Armstrong wrote: > > Use PDF instead of PS. That's the fool-proof method, and you get the > > advantages of the PDF specification. > > > > [It's also probably time to move away from pdflatex to xe

Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows

On 13/10/15 15:45, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Mon, October 12, 2015 11:15 pm, Stuart Longland wrote: >> There's also a Windows port of Evince. > > Thanks, Stuart; that knowledge may be useful. But installing Evince > likely is beyond the technical ability of my associate. I hope that he > h

Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 02:54:28AM -0500, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: [...] > Many thanks, Tomas. For years I have been wary of Adobe Reader, but I had > no idea that there were alternatives to Adobe Reader for Windows. Hey, thank *you*, Russ for he

Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows

On Tue, October 13, 2015 1:55 am, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > (Executive summary: there are lots of nice, free PDF viewers, even for > Windows. The FSF has been making an effort to publicize that fact [3] and > to get web pages to recommend those alternatives too). > [1] > [2

Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 12:45:33AM -0500, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Mon, October 12, 2015 11:15 pm, Stuart Longland wrote: > > There's also a Windows port of Evince. > > Thanks, Stuart; that knowledge may be useful. But installing Evince > like

Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 09:23:19PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > [...] I haven't looked > at a .dvi for years. I remember they're very quick to page through > multi-page documents, but graphic includes were a problem. FWIW I still use dvi for the "loc

Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows

On Mon, October 12, 2015 11:15 pm, Stuart Longland wrote: > There's also a Windows port of Evince. Thanks, Stuart; that knowledge may be useful. But installing Evince likely is beyond the technical ability of my associate. I hope that he has Adobe Reader running. Recently I was in an office and

Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows

On 13/10/15 14:09, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Debian, I have been using evince, but that is to view documents which I > obtain from other sources. There's also a Windows port of Evince. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somew

Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows

On Mon, October 12, 2015 9:23 pm, David Wright wrote: > Most people nowadays would produce .pdf files from LaTeX. I use > LuaLaTeX myself but I'm sure there are alternatives. I haven't looked > at a .dvi for years. I remember they're very quick to page through > multi-page documents, but graphic in

Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows

On Mon, October 12, 2015 9:16 pm, Don Armstrong wrote: > Use PDF instead of PS. That's the fool-proof method, and you get the > advantages of the PDF specification. > > [It's also probably time to move away from pdflatex to xelatex or > some other LaTeX engine with real utf8 support.] Thanks for b

Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows

Quoting rlhar...@oplink.net (rlhar...@oplink.net): > I use LaTeX to create a .tex document file, then I use dvips to generate > a .ps file to send to my Postscript printer. > > I would like to send a document file (.tex or .dvi or .ps) as an > email attachment to an associate so that he can print

Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows

On Mon, 12 Oct 2015, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > I would like to send a document file (.tex or .dvi or .ps) as an email > attachment to an associate so that he can print a copy and file it. > There is no need for him to edit the file. But my associate is running > Windows, and does not have a Post