On Sat, 4/12/2025 1:36 AM, Chris wrote:
micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:
In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Thu, 10 Apr 2025 16:50:05 +0100, Graham J
<nobody@nowhere.co.uk> wrote:
It may be worth setting yours to print to a PDF printer to see what size >>> paper it thinks its trying to send to the real printer.
Off topic from the off-topic, but what is the differrence between
printing (like from a webbrowsewr): Save to PDF vs. Microsoft Print to
PDF? Don't they both divide by pages?
Just different methods to achieve the same thing. The resulting pdf might
be slightly (cosmetically) different depending on which you choose.
The prints can be "suitable for re-purposing" or they can be "completely useless".
That is the nature of modern PDF.
PDF stands for Portable Document Format, which means the file is supposed
to be self supporting, and view-able on a Mac just as easily as on a PC.
PDF documents were a lot more useful, back when they were invented.
PDF pages consisting of low-res pixmap images (like they were generated
by using a scanner), aren't exactly my cup of tea. They can probably
be OCRed to repair them and make proper documents from them. Or, you
could have used the right print process in the first place. Those are
your choices.
This has elements of an older style of PDF.
https://www.acs.psu.edu/drussell/Demos/SWR/SmithChart.pdf
[Picture]
https://i.postimg.cc/tRPYjF5h/decent-quality-casual-PDF.gif
If there are any jaggies on the fonts on that document, it is
a fault of the printer interpretation routine (for printers that
directly accept PDF).
That document can be re-purposed, as the recipient can copy
sentences out of it when crafting their own report. The document
has not been made impossible to extract/copy text.
One of the reasons some students made that document, in a university,
is they objected to having to do engineering problem assignments on
paper that cost $0.25 a sheet. At the time, they hand-crafted PostScript
code, like a "computer program" in a sense, to draw that diagram. The PDF
in this case, was likely distilled, and if you do properties, that
particular file was distilled on a Mac. The older your Distiller,
the nicer the file.
The PDF produced on computers today, is borderline abusive.
But you have to have worked with the documents from the old
days, to understand what properties have degraded. The PDF
was never intended to make "shit prints" for example. It was
supposed to print nicely and not be a pain in the ass.
Paul
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