pdf files

Polytropon freebsd at edvax.de
Thu Oct 8 21:34:07 UTC 2015


On Thu, 8 Oct 2015 13:48:41 -0700, John Drake via freebsd-questions wrote:
> Without installing Ghostscript and its myriad dependencies, is there a
> simple way to just convert a post script file to a pdf file? 

The easiest way is to install ghostscript, but leave out the
support for X11, so several dependencies won't be needed. There
might be other dependencies which you can deselect in "make config"
before you build. At least you can be sure that the "pdf2ps" will
be there and will work as expected.


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