Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 13:22:08 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: stuart@internationalschool.co.uk, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ps2pdf (was: newbies mailing list) Message-ID: <19980304132208.60145@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19980304074004.07656@welearn.com.au>; from Sue Blake on Wed, Mar 04, 1998 at 07:40:04AM %2B1100 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> <19980304074004.07656@welearn.com.au>
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On Wed, 4 March 1998 at 7:40:04 +1100, Sue Blake wrote: > 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. My recollection was that they weren't stored at all. > 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. It's the viewer, not the format. I printed out one page both from the original and from the .pdf, and they were indistinguishable. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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