2010/7/10 Michael Talbot-Wilson
Running I think any browser on any Linux system, if I see a PDF file on the Web and click on print, and then print to a file, I automatically finish up with a .ps file. Which I can display with gv. The PDF format was all the time redundant.
No. Only nobody puts a PDF RIP into consumer printers. The situation is completely reversed with printing houses: There you will have problems getting PostScript printed.
I'm not competent to debate the merits of PDF versus PS but I know what I want.
:-)
I would like the high-level conveniences of ConTeXt, the ones I mentioned, but they don't supersede the rest.
The ConTeXt team will not spend much effort (if any) to make MkIV run with dvi(ps). So stop whining and show us your patches. :-)
"In DVI mode, luaTeX can be used as a complete replacement for the TeX engine."
Yes. But MkIV needs much more then DVI and currently aims at PDF. Best Martin