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Comment Re:JD (Score 1) 31

Not true. I own a John Deere tractor and live on an old farm.

There's plenty you can repair or customize on your deere tractor. As somebody else pointed out, some of their advanced machines are more like robots that plant and harvest for you. They're really cool, but it should come as no surprise that a computer controlled robot needs more sophisticated ways of maintaining than a tractor when you run a new hydraulic line or change the oil...

Comment Web Pages Use Same Imaging Model (Score 1) 227

Web pages use SVG to render vector graphics. It uses the exact same imaging model as PDF and is implemented in all modern browsers. The web in general has taken a lot of lessons from Adobe because Warnock and Geshke, in the PostScript Red Book, got so much right about how to build an image model that many GUI developers are still learning today. If you start with a PDF, it should be possible to machine-translate it to SVG and present it as a web page.

PDF exists because it is trivial to generate it from the document renderer meant for printing. Although I have once in a while run into an improperly scaled PDF meant to be printed 8-up, I'm just not

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