Re: [tlug] What's with this anti-Apple tirade? [was: 2014-05-10 Linux Quiz]

[David Blomberg <dblomber@example.com>]

On 2014年05月14日 15:01, Jim Breen wrote:
> On 14 May 2014 15:07, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@example.com> wrote:
>
> > ...  That's
> > where it's really hard to get around Microsoft lock-in.
>
> There were, of course, howls of outrage from the LaTeX brigade
> in Engineering, Science and IT. The bureaucracy backed down and
> said that PDFs were OK too, but added a warning that for PDFs they
> wanted an extra proof-reading as "symbols may not convert properly".
> No-one knows quite what they meant by this, as if there are conversion
> problems with PDFs, they are more likely to be with Word than anything
> else.
Had some issues with some peoples PDFs a few years ago. They used an odd 
font and they were not embedded so I got sections of the paper out in 
mojibake. In that case it was user error and my colleagues applied the 
cluebat to him for it.

:-P