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Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:00:03 +0100
From: Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Inferno /sys/doc: PDFs are actually PS?
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This has been discussed in the past in the proper place for it: the
inferno-list.

And no, I don't remember why there are postscript files with .pdf
extension, and obviously have no clue why this has not been fixed.

uriel

On Jan 18, 2008 3:18 AM, Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com> wrote:
> Hello. I tried to see the Inferno document "An Overview of Limbo/
> Tk" (inferno_root/doc/limbotk/tk.pdf) with page, and it looks blurry.
> So I decided to put it on my Mac OS X, and Adobe Reader didn't open
> it. I then found it was a ps file, not a PDF file. Why does Inferno
> use the .pdf extension, then?
>
> PS - I converted the PS to a PDF with Mac OS X and it it still
> blurry :-( The Inferno distribution doesn't come with any images so I
> can't rebuild from the troff source.
>
>