PS to PDF converter needed
Scott Bennett
bennett at cs.niu.edu
Mon Jun 11 03:39:53 UTC 2007
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 05:30:48 +0200 Nikola Lecic <nlecic at EUnet.yu> replied:
>On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 22:06:49 -0500 (CDT)
>Scott Bennett <bennett at cs.niu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Is there anything in the ports tree that can convert a
>> PostScript file to a PDF file?
>
>Hello Scott,
>
>Of course, print/ghostscript*; for example (ghostscript-gpl):
>
> %/usr/local/bin/gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH \
> -sPAPERSIZE=3Da4 -r300 \
> -sDEVICE=3Dpdfwrite \
> -sOutputFile=3Dtest.pdf \
> test.ps
>
>or ps2pdf* from the same package.
>
>See gs(1) and ps2pdf(1) for details.
>
Thanks for the gs(1) example. I have portinstall running right now to
install ghostscript-afpl. I noticed, though, that ghostscript-afpl apparently
wants a deprecated version of the ghostscript port installed. I hope it
doesn't wipe out what's already installed.
Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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