Does LM have a native format  to render pages. As an example: You see
this great web page and it is full of graphics...so you want to print
it. Microsoft offers .xps and there is Adobe which renders as .pdf. Is
there some other format besides those two .pdf-.xps?

>Does LM have a native format  to render pages. As an example: You see
>this great web page and it is full of graphics...so you want to print
>it. Microsoft offers .xps and there is Adobe which renders as .pdf. Is
>there some other format besides those two .pdf-.xps?

Wouldn't this be more a function of the web browser than the OS? On LM
Print to File generally produces a PDF.

Nic wrote:
> Does LM have a native format  to render pages. As an example: You see
> this great web page and it is full of graphics...so you want to print
> it. Microsoft offers .xps and there is Adobe which renders as .pdf. Is
> there some other format besides those two .pdf-.xps?

Not really. Microsoft invented .xps hoping it could compete with .pdf,
but unfortunately for them it couldn't and .pdf is still the standard.
I expect .xps to slowly disappear in the near future, just like their
..chm format.

Apart from that, rendering pages has little to do with the functions of
an operating system, it's up to the programmers of browsers/programs to
decide which formats they want to support.

On 4/19/22 2:56 PM, NP2 wrote:
> Nic wrote:
>> Does LM have a native format  to render pages. As an example: You see
>> this great web page and it is full of graphics...so you want to print
>> it. Microsoft offers .xps and there is Adobe which renders as .pdf.
>> Is there some other format besides those two .pdf-.xps?
>
> Not really. Microsoft invented .xps hoping it could compete with .pdf,
> but unfortunately for them it couldn't and .pdf is still the standard.
> I expect .xps to slowly disappear in the near future, just like their
> .chm format.
>
> Apart from that, rendering pages has little to do with the functions
> of an operating system, it's up to the programmers of
> browsers/programs to decide which formats they want to support.
>
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>
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I was just hoping that the Linux community had come up with an
alternative to pdf that I was not aware of.

On 4/19/22 15:14, this is what Nic wrote:
> On 4/19/22 2:56 PM, NP2 wrote:
>> Nic wrote:
>>> Does LM have a native format  to render pages. As an example: You see this great web page and it is full of
>>> graphics...so you want to print it. Microsoft offers .xps and there is Adobe which renders as .pdf. Is there some
>>> other format besides those two .pdf-.xps?
>>
>> Not really. Microsoft invented .xps hoping it could compete with .pdf, but unfortunately for them it couldn't and .pdf
>> is still the standard.
>> I expect .xps to slowly disappear in the near future, just like their .chm format.
>>
>> Apart from that, rendering pages has little to do with the functions of an operating system, it's up to the
>> programmers of browsers/programs to decide which formats they want to support.
>>
>>
> I was just hoping that the Linux community had come up with an alternative to pdf that I was not aware of.
>
What's wrong with PDF then? It's portable to all OS's. It prints when you want to.

Big Al wrote:

> On 4/19/22 15:14, this is what Nic wrote:
>> On 4/19/22 2:56 PM, NP2 wrote:
>>> Nic wrote:
>>>> Does LM have a native format to render pages. As an example: You see
>>>> this great web page and it is full of graphics...so you want to print
>>>> it. Microsoft offers .xps and there is Adobe which renders as .pdf. Is
>>>> there some other format besides those two .pdf-.xps?
>>>
>>> Not really. Microsoft invented .xps hoping it could compete with .pdf,
>>> but unfortunately for them it couldn't and .pdf is still the standard.
>>> I expect .xps to slowly disappear in the near future, just like their
>>> .chm format.
>>>
>>> Apart from that, rendering pages has little to do with the functions of
>>> an operating system, it's up to the programmers of browsers/programs to
>>> decide which formats they want to support.
>>>
>>>
>> I was just hoping that the Linux community had come up with an
>> alternative to pdf that I was not aware of.
>>
> What's wrong with PDF then? It's portable to all OS's. It prints when
> you want to.
Nothing wrong with pdf. I asked because I thought that Linux may had some
alternative method that was unique to Linux, it seemed logical since I see
so many other attempts at providing gnome versions of other products. If I
speculate and ask what will computers be like in 100 years? Will Linux
evolve into the latest technology? Will a totally new os be written?