[PLUG] Browser Differences: Mozilla & Opera

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Fri Mar 28 10:15:03 UTC 2003


  I just learned something both interesting and bothersome: the PostScript
files produced by mozilla-1.2.0 and opera-6.0 when printing to disk are
different. This would not be an issue except that the flavor produced by
Opera cannot be translated into ASCII text by ghostview-6.52.

  I printed a Web page with opera to a disk file. A table did not properly
display because it's wider than the page. So I decided to translate it to
text and re-format it so I could print it out. No luck: gv error. However,
when I went back with mozilla, it worked like a charm.

  And I thought that postscript was postscript and that the 6.52 version of
ghostscript/-view could handle the different ps versions.

Rich

Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President

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