OT: skinflinter printing

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 07:13:33AM -0700, Bob Rasmussen wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
> > Mailing an invoice or other document consumes postage stamps.
> > Faxing also costs a few pennies.
> >
> > For those of my correspondents who are 'net-connected, I eschew such
> > picayune disbursements of pennies: using uucp over tcp/ip, I print the
> > output on a printer near the desk of the person who should receive it.
> > ...
> 
> Your approach will work if you have control over, and knowledge of, the
> entire network. In other situations, it has shortcomings. What if you need
> to print fancy, but you don't know what kind of printer they have?
> 
> Let me suggest another approach, which is rapidly gaining popularity.
> Generate a PDF, and then email it to the intended recipient.

For balance, I'll point out Sanface's txt2pdf, which is also
commercial, though reasonably inexpensive, and is shipped in
*unobfucsated perl*.  I haven't beat it to death yet, but for the
simple things I've tried it for, it seems to work pretty well.

Cheers,
-- jra
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