https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=732442 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=732442#c2 --- Comment #2 from Roland Hughes <roland@logikalsolutions.com> 2011-11-24 14:28:29 UTC --- I have run into Mike Sweet before. You can take what he knows about IT, pour it into a sewing thimble, and suddenly find room to park seven 18 wheelers. This brainiac swears computers with serial and parallel ports haven't been sold in years, yet 10 minutes searching Microcenter's Web site found no less than 30 computers and motherboards for sale containing at least one of those ports. Either later today or tomorrow I will be cutting and pasting his illuminating posts over on the AARP forums where he can find out what life is like when 50+million retired people who have nothing better to do all day than follow him around on-line is like, Printing is no fun because people like Mike, who know absolutely nothing about the industry, make the decisions. I've been a published author for multiple decades now, AND I have over 20 years in IT. I was there when PDF came about and I can tell you it CAUSES MORE PROBLEMS THAN IT SOLVES. When a print shop requests a PDF from me I know for a fact they have minimum wage (or less) workers doing their pre-flight. PDF is quite popular with POD operations, but high end ink printers still demand multiple proofs if you want to work with that format. You have to actually know IT history to understand why PDF is bad. BASIC has an ANSI standard and was supposed to be the first "portable" language students learned. I defy anyone here to port a non-trivial VAX BASIC program to Quick BASIC and then Visual Basic. COBOL has an ANSI standard and was supposed to be the first "portable" business language. I defy anyone here to port a nontrivial IBM mainframe COBOL program to ACCU-COBOL and then to MicroFocus COBOL. C has an ANSI standard and was billed as the first truly "portable" language. What a laugh that turned out to be, especially thanks to BORLAND and every other PC compiler adding their own "extensions". PDF = Portable Document Format There is no ANSI standard because PDF is a GUIDELINE. It is THE poorest choice for printing input you could ever make. BTW, I've written two books on Qt which are now ready for editing. The "default" output from a QTextDocumentWriter is ODF. You have to manually force PDF, Postscript, or any other file format. ODF, like its predecessor in the Qt world RTF, is inherently non-portable. KOffice, AbiWord, LibreOffice, and IBM's Lotus Symphony will all render the same file differently on the exact same machine. It will be even worse on other machines due to the lack of common fonts and a common cross platform rendering engine. PDF has similar problems. Yes, the document has been converted to an "image" to some extent, it still requires a rendering engine and those engines are ALL different. Not only that, but they REQUIRE accurate information to come back from the printer drivers. Take a look at the 2 png files I'm attaching. This is the exact same printer using the Generic Postscript level 2 printer driver. One section is able to obtain the resolution and the other is not. If your PDF rendering engine uses the resolution value (which most try to) consider yourself pooched! -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.