From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Jun 29 14:19:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA11771 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 14:19:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA11690 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 14:18:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id VAA08801; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 21:47:05 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199806291947.VAA08801@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: pdf pain... To: ambrisko@whistle.com (Doug Ambrisko) Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 21:47:05 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199806292001.NAA05882@whistle.com> from "Doug Ambrisko" at Jun 29, 98 01:01:14 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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