From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Jun 29 17:31:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA13256 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 17:31:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from blackie.cruzers.com (cruzers.com [205.215.232.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA13156 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 17:30:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkulp@board66.cruzers.com) Received: from board66.cruzers.com (board66.cruzers.com [205.215.233.66]) by blackie.cruzers.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA03066; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 17:37:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dkulp@localhost) by board66.cruzers.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) id RAA24700; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 17:30:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 17:30:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199806300030.RAA24700@board66.cruzers.com> From: David Kulp MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Doug Ambrisko Cc: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo), multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pdf pain... In-Reply-To: <199806292135.OAA06875@whistle.com> References: <199806291947.VAA08801@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> <199806292135.OAA06875@whistle.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.22 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >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. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message