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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Adobe & Printing (humor)
From:       Hunter Thomas <archangelq () email ! com>
Date:       2001-10-30 16:36:35
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Well, there you go, that too. And if you really want to, you can do that with 
windows too, just not securely. Not that it stops anybody. I know I've come 
across my fair share of unsecured windows workgroups with world addressable 
machines sharing printers. You could have a blast printing to thouse printers 
from anywhere on the internet, PDF format or not.

On Tuesday 30 October 2001 08:28 am, Michael Goffioul embarassed themselves 
publicly by sending:
> Actually, as far as I understood, the *new* thing is that you'll be
> able to print a file on a remote printer through the internet (the
> printer being for example in a print shop), using PDF as tranport
> format. But again, I don't see what's really new compared to IPP
> (CUPS) which is already able to print PDF files across the network
> in a secure way.
>
> Michael.
>
> Hunter Thomas wrote:
> > Actually, I remember being able to do this in just about any windows app
> > anyway, whatever adobe may be smoking. In most MacOS programs too, for
> > that matter. It's simple matter of clicking 'print to file', just like in
> > KDE. Adobe is just on a hell of a lot of crack. Nothing new there.
> >
> > > Adobe will announce today a new technology called "Adobe PDF Transit" -
> > > which will allow you to "print" any file into PDF format so you could
> > > send it or carry it to your printing shop..
 
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