Y'all are going to make me spend the day reading up on the portable document format.
But I guess I did this to myself.
Another factor to consider is how portable is portable--you have the option of embedding fonts in your PDF or not.
Just keep walking, preacher-man.
River ,'Jaynestown'
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§ ita § - Dec 22, 2005 3:54:24 am PST #6125 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Gudanov - Dec 22, 2005 4:50:10 am PST #6126 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
I'm still doubtful. If the PDF has no images, I don't think it's rasterized internally. If it is, why would the file size of the PDF be so much smaller than, say, a compressed TIF file of the same page?
PDF is a vector format similar to PostScript that can have embedded raster images.
Jon B. - Dec 22, 2005 5:03:05 am PST #6127 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Thanks, Gud. That's my understanding as well.
le nubian - Dec 22, 2005 5:58:55 am PST #6128 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Warning about some spam/malware...
I opened my email this morning and in the Spam box was an email postcard. I use gmail so when I opened it, I put my cursor over the links without clicking them and saw that the links went to .exe files.
Just fyi about postcard greetings that aren't what they seem.
-t - Dec 22, 2005 12:27:06 pm PST #6129 of 10003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Dumb Tivo question. Do they work with cable boxes to get premium channels and whatnot?
tommyrot - Dec 22, 2005 12:33:09 pm PST #6130 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Do they work with cable boxes to get premium channels and whatnot?
Yes. They actually control the cable box, changing channels as they need to. So they can record whatever you can get.
-t - Dec 22, 2005 12:37:44 pm PST #6131 of 10003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
But they can still do that magical watch one thing and record another thing?
I am minutes away from buying one, I think. Push me over the edge.
Stephanie - Dec 22, 2005 12:39:08 pm PST #6132 of 10003
Trust my rage
Tivo lets you watch something previously recorded while it records something else live. You can't watch/record Lost/Vm for example because the Tivo only has one tuner.
eta: Still, Tivo rawks! I love mine so much. It was a gift but otherwise, I would say money very well spent. It really will change the way you watch TV.
-t - Dec 22, 2005 12:42:43 pm PST #6133 of 10003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Shoot, that wasn't the answer I was looking for. But I think I will still get it, I just won't quite retire the VCRs yet.
Thanks!
tommyrot - Dec 22, 2005 12:45:20 pm PST #6134 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
-t, do you have analog or digital cable?
If you have analog, you might be able to use the tuner of a VCR or the one in your TV to view a non-premium program, while the tuner of your cable box feeds the TiVo.
I have digital cable, but I think they still send an analog signal over the same cable, so I can use the VCR tuner trick.