Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 21:47:05 +0200 (MET DST) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: ambrisko@whistle.com (Doug Ambrisko) Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pdf pain... Message-ID: <199806291947.VAA08801@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <199806292001.NAA05882@whistle.com> from "Doug Ambrisko" at Jun 29, 98 01:01:14 pm
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> Luigi Rizzo writes: > | I am having a problem... people here are insisting that some > | documentation be made available in PDF (the previous format of choice > | was Word DOC format...) so i wonder if there is a solution to produce > | PDF from postscript without having to run Windows and/or having to buy > | the writer from adobe. > > Newer versions of Ghostscript can output PDF from PostScript. i seem to remember that for some kind of licensing problem, gs only outputs uncompressed PDF. Am i wrong ? Ironically, the reason the above people like pdf so much is that files are smaller than uncompressed postscript (especially postscript generated by 50-100MB applications)... but ok, this is a viable alternative, thanks for the pointer. cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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