[Linux-users] Rotation of PDF files

[Michael Hipp]

Ben Duncan wrote:
> PDF is suppose to be a direct descendant of Postscript (could be wrong here).

I think this is essentially true, but relevant only to the extent that Bill 
Clinton being a direct descendant of Mrs. Noah helps explain anything.

e.g. PDF is different enough that it must be read from a random access device 
and can't be processed as a stream. Great design feature, that.

The sad fact is that PDF doesn't work very well with any OSS apps and not very 
well even with the very closed, bloated and buggy Adobe Reader. Why this is, I 
dunno, but suspect that it is simply a very poor "standard".

But we're stuck with in the same glorious way we're stuck with Windows.

Perdition on them all.

Michael