Comment on Save as PDF

• Sanctus@anarchist.nexus ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not how printing as pdf works but I appreciate the effort

  source

  • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m sorry but I am the head of printing operations at work and I can assure you, that is exactly how computers work.

    source

    • mech@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Can we get a second opinion from the head of saving operations?

      source

      • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That department was cut for financial reasons.

        source
    • W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Then you already know this:

      Image

      source

      • dankm@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I love that the goat sacrifice is before replacing the cable…

        source
    • Sanctus@anarchist.nexus ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh! Apologies sir. I didn’t realize you were the one casting the printer summoning seances from that side of the veil. You know if you ever need support you can draw out the four runes on the back of the book.

      source
• jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I haven’t looked at the printer driver interface on various different operating systens, but I imagine programmatically you don’t write ACSII text directly to it, the way you would with file io calls. Though on Linux you have “lpr” where you can pipe text directly to the command. It’s possible a printer could natively support this, but clearly it would be a different interface to render anything more complex than ascii text.

  source