From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Mar 3 12:40:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA28068 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 12:40:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (suebla.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA28055 for ; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 12:40:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sue@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA20913; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 07:40:07 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <19980304074004.07656@welearn.com.au> Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 07:40:04 +1100 From: Sue Blake To: Greg Lehey Cc: stuart@internationalschool.co.uk, FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: ps2pdf (was: newbies mailing list) References: <19980302172511.58160@welearn.com.au> <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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <19980303105942.57041@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Tue, Mar 03, 1998 at 10:59:42AM +1030 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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*- find / -name "*.conf" |more To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message