From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Jul 12 2:18:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 400CA37B403 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 02:18:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Rahul.Siddharthan@lpt.ens.fr) Received: from corto.lpt.ens.fr (corto.lpt.ens.fr [129.199.122.2]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id f6C9Htm23629 ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 11:18:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: from (rsidd@localhost) by corto.lpt.ens.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.1) id LAA46179 ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 11:17:30 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 11:17:30 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Linh Pham Cc: Murray Stokely , Chern Lee , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ASCII Diagram Replacements Message-ID: <20010712111730.H42931@lpt.ens.fr> References: <20010711190725.B49668@meow.osd.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from lplist@closedsrc.org on Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 07:11:30PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Linh Pham said on Jul 11, 2001 at 19:11:30: > I guess I'm glad that the only time I have to deal with Postscript files > is when I take a PS file and convert it to PDF (of course, I do the > conversion on a Windows machine... shame on me). Is there a decent PS to > PDF converter available in the Ports collection? I don't remember seeing > one. The newest version of ghostscript (6.5) does a pretty good job. It includes a ps2pdf script which does things automatically, or you can use gs with command-line options to fine-tune it. Usually I need to do the reverse: given a PDF file I convert it to PS to take a printout... - Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message