On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 19:40 -0400, Rob wrote: > On Wednesday 25 October 2006 16:40, Paul Davis wrote: > > coming from a command line background, it seems ridiculous > > that the file managers/browsers have all omitted to leverage > > the power of lpr and its filter system. > > You do realize that most office document and image formats are > not plain text, PDF or Postscript, right? Because for all of > lpr's power, those are the only common formats it handles as far > as I know, and running "my-resume.odt" through lpr will waste a > lot of paper pretty fast. my family is well trained to consider only PDF as a portable "final" image format. PostScript is an acceptable second. ODT, .tex, .doc are all considered "unstable, in-progress formats". this is reinforced by the kids' schools which use homework upload sites that accept PDFs (they also accept .doc, but i tend not to call attention to that). when my wife needs to print more gift certificates for her massage therapy clients, or directions to a house party, or her resume for another mosaic mural residency, she has PDF's finished and ready to go. from the command line, its so easy, from a GUI, it seems more work than it should be. --p
