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From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: pdf pain...
In-Reply-To: <199806291947.VAA08801@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from Luigi Rizzo at "Jun 29, 98 09:47:05 pm"
To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo)
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 14:35:15 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
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Luigi Rizzo writes:
| > Luigi Rizzo writes:
| > | I am having a problem... people here are insisting that some
| > | documentation be made available in PDF (the previous format of choice
| > | was Word DOC format...) so i wonder if there is a solution to produce
| > | PDF from postscript without having to run Windows and/or having to buy
| > | the writer from adobe.
| > 
| > Newer versions of Ghostscript can output PDF from PostScript.
| 
| i seem to remember that for some kind of licensing problem, gs only
| outputs uncompressed PDF. Am i wrong ?

I don't know.  I just know I can create stuff that acroread can read.

Doug A.

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