Re: Postscript to pdf ?

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From: Nick Andrew
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 1997 00:00

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In <m2lo0eaxs6.fsf@reddwarf.aup.com.au> Manfred Bartz <mbartz@werple.net.au> writes:

>Aladdin (not Gnu) ghostscript comes with ``pdf2ps'' and ``ps2pdf''.
>I have V5.01, don't know if that is the latest.  Sorry, don't have a URL.

5.03 is the latest public release, AFAIK.

ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/pub/ghost/aladdin/

I'm using it to convert LaTeX documents to PDF, via PostScript. It apparently
works fine, for examples see:

	http://www.zeta.org.au/Guest/welc.ps
	http://www.zeta.org.au/Guest/welc.pdf

The PDF files are substantially bigger than those created by Adobe's
distiller. I think the latter produces LZW-compressed PDF whereas the
former is (mostly?) readable, thus accounting for the size difference.

Nick.
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Subject: Re: Postscript to pdf ?
Date: 1997/10/01
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