Re: Postscript to PDF program

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "FB" == Frank BENNETT <bennett@example.com> writes:

    FB> On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 10:36:30AM +0900, Antony Stace wrote:
    >> Is there a postscript to PDF program out there that will run on
    >> Linux?

    FB> I've not tried this, but Ghostscript 5.50 responds to gs
    FB> --help with:

Yes and no.  You can use `-sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=output.pdf'
which will produce a standard-conformant PDF file that in many cases
Acrobat can't read.  Adobe has acknowledged the bug, AFAIK has done
nothing to fix it.  Ghostscript 6.x is much better in this regard, but
I don't know whether it has been completely fixed.  You should test
all PDF files you produce with any readers your users might have, and
there may be Postscript that Ghostscript cannot convert to Acrobat-
pablum PDF.

If you are starting from SGML or LaTex, you could use pdflatex, but
has a similar problem AFAIK.  At least, Windose users always have
trouble reading the PDF docs on www.xemacs.org.

-- 
University of Tsukuba                Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN
Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences       Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091
_________________  _________________  _________________  _________________
What are those straight lines for?  "XEmacs rules."