Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:50:11 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, Gonzalo Nemmi <gnemmi@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: man -t odd page size Message-ID: <20081023105011.893a479a.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20081023174911.P4254@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: <20081023035928.C55AC1065738@hub.freebsd.org> <20081023174911.P4254@sola.nimnet.asn.au>
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On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:37:56 +1100 (EST), Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> wrote: > Polytropon: thanks for pdfman script - but does 'pdfman ipfw' work for > you? Here the 'overprinting' is misaligned in gv, while others are ok. Yes, but it outputs an error message: <standard input>:2620: warning [p 25, 6.2i]: cannot adjust line The PDF file is 26 pages long. Maybe another PDF viewer will work better (xpdf)? > Well, a quarter of the people on this planet live in China, so by your > theory shouldn't the FreeBSD lists, docs and code all be in Chinese? Let me follow this Micky Mouse Logic. :-) Because the computer has been invented by a German, all computer stuff should be in the german language. And now all the Americans can feel how the average german computer user feels today: scared by all the things he doesn't understand. :-) > What actually works and is adopted in the real world determines that. Nota bene: The worst solution always prevails. People want cheap, they get cheap. Insert bunch of Murphy's laws here. :-) > Ask yourself: how come the world uses TCP/IP for internet communications > rather than the OSI X.200-X.219 suite? How come we're still using SMTP > plus a pile of RFCs to deliver email rather than the X.400-X.420 suite? Having worked with the AX.25 protocol (on amateur radio), sometimes I tend to thing... oh what a crap is TCP/IP... :-) -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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