{"id":2839,"date":"2006-11-24T08:47:43","date_gmt":"2006-11-24T13:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/24\/the-great-lost-opportunity\/"},"modified":"2006-11-24T08:47:43","modified_gmt":"2006-11-24T13:47:43","slug":"the-great-lost-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/24\/the-great-lost-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"the great lost opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always thought that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/\">Adobe <\/a>missed a great opportunity when they didn&#8217;t make their basic PDF writer freely available for Windows. Other OSs now have transparent print-to-PDF options. If you&#8217;re lucky, a corporate PC might have <a href=\"http:\/\/office.microsoft.com\/en-us\/help\/HP010771031033.aspx\">MS Office Document Image Writer<\/a> installed, but a 300dpi monochrome TIFF can&#8217;t compare to a PDF.<\/p>\n<p>Still, one can always install <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdfforge.org\/products\/pdfcreator\">PDFCreator<\/a> (if you have admin rights to the PC, of course). It&#8217;s a shame they decide to bundle <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdfforge.org\/node\/132\">a marginally dodgy toolbar\/spyware package<\/a> with it, but you don&#8217;t get that if you use the MSI installer package.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always thought that Adobe missed a great opportunity when they didn&#8217;t make their basic PDF writer freely available for Windows. Other OSs now have transparent print-to-PDF options. If you&#8217;re lucky, a corporate PC might have MS Office Document Image Writer installed, but a 300dpi monochrome TIFF can&#8217;t compare to a PDF. Still, one can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[1302,838,614,906,1066,510,921,1113,150,594,1429,221,185,137,765,1345,808,1154,1269,59,268],"class_list":["post-2839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","tag-ack","tag-adobe","tag-course","tag-dodgy","tag-eat","tag-free","tag-hp","tag-ice","tag-led","tag-lost","tag-microsoft","tag-office","tag-options","tag-pc","tag-pdf","tag-ren","tag-tiff","tag-toolbar","tag-ugh","tag-wind","tag-windows"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-JN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}