From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 2 16:30:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA28412 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 16:30:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA28325 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 16:29:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA08976; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 10:59:43 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id KAA14047; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 10:59:43 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980303105942.57041@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 10:59:42 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: stuart@internationalschool.co.uk Cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: ps2pdf (was: newbies mailing list) References: <19980302172511.58160@welearn.com.au> <19980302182544.45884@welearn.com.au> <19980302103201.36237@shale.csir.co.za> <19980302213522.52802@welearn.com.au> <34FAA2BC.44C52F83@internationalschool.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <34FAA2BC.44C52F83@internationalschool.co.uk>; from stuart henderson on Mon, Mar 02, 1998 at 12:14:52PM +0000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 2 March 1998 at 12:14:52 +0000, stuart henderson wrote: > Sue Blake wrote: >>> sections so you only have to print the pages you want, and should be >>> converted to PDF (which can be done with GhostScript - not sure if >>> it works). >> >> With ghostscript? That's the first I've heard of it. > > There's a supplied ps2pdf script which invokes it with > -sDEVICE=pdfwrite. Yes, it works, quite nice if you have to read > manpages on a Windows machine. Interesting. > Making a .pdf of the handbook etc. would probably be very helpful for > Windows users, using the current structure it's not very easy to > download the whole lot to read off-line. Or a zip of all the html files > (preferably with the extension .htm, yes it's ugly but at least it'll > work better in Win3 :-) Word (or RTF) format is probably more useful in > the long term but the converter's already there for PDF. A caveat: I tried doing this with the print image of "The Complete FreeBSD". Here are the sizes of the .ps and the .pdf files: -rw-r--r-- 1 grog lemis 36091997 Feb 18 09:59 /home/Book/FreeBSD/Chapter/complete/book.ps -rw-r--r-- 1 grog bin 203221187 Mar 3 10:17 /var/tmp/book.pdf I also find that xpdf gives a much worse rendition of the pdf version than ghostview does of the ps version, but this may be just the tools. At least the printed version seems to be identical. > And, bizarrely enough, some people don't use the internet > although Word format would probably be even more useful... What's "Word format"? Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message