Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 17:30:04 -0700 (PDT) From: David Kulp <dkulp@neomorphic.com> To: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com> Cc: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo), multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pdf pain... Message-ID: <199806300030.RAA24700@board66.cruzers.com> In-Reply-To: <199806292135.OAA06875@whistle.com> References: <199806291947.VAA08801@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> <199806292135.OAA06875@whistle.com>
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>From the ps2pdf man page:
Currently ps2pdf does a reasonable job on filled/stroked
graphics, on bitmap images, and on text in the 14 built-in
PDF fonts in the intersection of Windows and ISO Latin-1
encodings. It converts all other text in the PostScript
file to bitmaps in the PDF file (although it does only
write the bitmap for each character once per page, and
only on pages where the character is actually used). It
does not compress the output at all, except for character
bitmaps: it can't use LZW because of Unisys' patent
claims, and it doesn't yet use other compression methods
for images.
-d
Doug Ambrisko writes:
> Luigi Rizzo writes:
> | > 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 ?
>
> I don't know. I just know I can create stuff that acroread can read.
>
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