ps2pdf

[Erik Trulsson]

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.


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Erik Trulsson
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