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Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:15:46 +0300
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Inferno /sys/doc: PDFs are actually PS?
From: Alexander Sychev <santucco@gmail.com>
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On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:24:31 +0300, Charles Forsyth  
<forsyth@terzarima.net> wrote:

>> Why does Inferno
>> use the .pdf extension, then?
>
> that's what gs produced on plan 9 when i asked for pdf.
> i tried another program elsewhere, probably gs on linux, but it didn't  
> fare any better.
> i should probably try the adobe site that converts single documents, if  
> that's still there.
> i'm reluctant to buy a new acrobat copy just for one file.
> they lost my vote when they added javascript.

BTW, what a type of source files? Are they the TeX-files? In such case  
.pdf might be produced by pdflatex ;-).


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Best regards,
   santucco