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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 23:11:03 +0100
From: John Hughes <johh.hughes@???>
To: Rick Moen <rick@???>
Subject: Re: [DNG] printing in a D-Bus free system

On 15/03/18 21:19, Rick Moen wrote:
> 'Successor' is not quite the right description, IMO. The key point is
> that PDF (which, to be sure, was developed later) is bidirectionally
> equivalent and semantically identical to PostScript. You can convert a
> .ps file to .pdf one and back, and not lose any substantive content in
> either direction. The primary physical difference is that the PDF
> version will be stored compressed, while the PS version will not.
The major advantage of PDF over PostScript is that PDF is not Turing
complete.

Using Turing complete systems in places you don't need them is insane
and will eventually bring about the singularity.

(Of course PDF has now been fucked up by the inclusion of JavaScript,
but that's an other story...)

By the way, when will anyone point out that  printer-driver-hpcups
might be enough for printing to non-ps HP printers and it doesn't need
d-bus?

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