[pdftex] PDF being satirised (as an agent of genocide?).

Hans Hagen pragma at wxs.nl
Tue Nov 30 15:40:08 CET 2004


William F. Adams wrote:

> ignored --- PA puts a spot colour in their tax form .pdfs so they 
> wouldn't open up in pdf viewers on my NeXT Cube).

that's strange because spot colors are never shows on the screen (unless in the 
full version in proof colors mode) but the associated rgb/cmyk/gray spec is used 
for display purposes

seems like a viewer problem (if you use ghostscript, that one didn't have proper 
DeviceN / Separation color space support until recently)

> That said, it's nowhere near as funny as Penn Jillette's bit on 
> Wingdings, which is classic:
> 
> http://pennandteller.com/sincity/penn-n-teller/pcc/wingding.html

since you like fonts ....

   http://www.markfiore.com/animation/fontpol.html

Hans

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