Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 07:40:04 +1100 From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: stuart@internationalschool.co.uk, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ps2pdf (was: newbies mailing list) Message-ID: <19980304074004.07656@welearn.com.au> In-Reply-To: <19980303105942.57041@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Tue, Mar 03, 1998 at 10:59:42AM %2B1030 References: <19980302172511.58160@welearn.com.au> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980301224633.27288A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> <19980302182544.45884@welearn.com.au> <19980302103201.36237@shale.csir.co.za> <19980302213522.52802@welearn.com.au> <34FAA2BC.44C52F83@internationalschool.co.uk> <19980303105942.57041@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Tue, Mar 03, 1998 at 10:59:42AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Mon, 2 March 1998 at 12:14:52 +0000, stuart henderson wrote:
> > Sue Blake wrote:
> >>> sections so you only have to print the pages you want, and should be
> >>> converted to PDF (which can be done with GhostScript - not sure if
> >>> it works).
> >>
> >> With ghostscript? That's the first I've heard of it.
> >
> > There's a supplied ps2pdf script which invokes it with
> > -sDEVICE=pdfwrite. Yes, it works, quite nice if you have to read
> > manpages on a Windows machine.
>
> Interesting.
>
> > Making a .pdf of the handbook etc. would probably be very helpful for
> > Windows users, using the current structure it's not very easy to
> > download the whole lot to read off-line. Or a zip of all the html files
> > (preferably with the extension .htm, yes it's ugly but at least it'll
> > work better in Win3 :-) Word (or RTF) format is probably more useful in
> > the long term but the converter's already there for PDF.
>
> A caveat: I tried doing this with the print image of "The Complete
> FreeBSD". Here are the sizes of the .ps and the .pdf files:
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 grog lemis 36091997 Feb 18 09:59 /home/Book/FreeBSD/Chapter/complete/book.ps
> -rw-r--r-- 1 grog bin 203221187 Mar 3 10:17 /var/tmp/book.pdf
If created with Acrobat's tools the same thing is just under 6 megs,
probably because the graphics are stored compressed. Quite a space-saver,
and one of the few excuses remaining for using windoze.
While windoze is up, if someone can offer me a zipped handbook.ps (and/or
FAQ) I'll experiment with an Acrobat version. (I'd have to FTP it to the win
machine because my disks are all full)
> I also find that xpdf gives a much worse rendition of the pdf version
> than ghostview does of the ps version, but this may be just the
> tools.
Let's check that with a proper PDF, just for fun.
--
Regards,
-*Sue*-
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