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> Right, but in return you gave up nice generation of exactly equivalent
> PS files. I have a PS printer - I put PDF on the web and cat PS to the
> printer :-)

You can use pdftops(1) from the xpdf Port wich seems to make a very
correct PostScript output. For me, the pdf2ps(1) from Ghostscript make
a very, very ugly PostScript document.

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-jg.