Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 20:09:23 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: thursday <thursday@sdf.lonestar.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ps2pdf Message-ID: <20030729180923.GA4029@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20030729163414.GA397@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> References: <20030729163414.GA397@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG>
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On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 04:34:14PM +0000, thursday wrote: > Greetings, > > Ok, sorry for the idiot question, but I am a bit confued. > > I'm using FreeBSD 4.8 (FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #0), > and I need to avail myself of the ps2pdf utility. > > I understand that this utility is part of the psutils suite, which I > installed from ports without any problem. Your understanding is not correct. > > But ps2pdf doesn't install anywhere (and doesn't exist in > /usr/ports/print/psutils-letter/work/psutils). > > So I am a bit confused. It's installed by default apparently on a > couple of Linux boxes I have access to, but I'd rather use my FreeBSD > machine rather than the linux boxen. > > I know ps2pdf is just a shell script to gs (but gs isn't installed > either); can someone in the know give me a shove in the right > direcetion? ps2pdf is installed as part of ghostscript. As you note it is just a shell script frontend for ghostscript, so it is not of any use without that installed. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se
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