Subject: Re: Jade Backends (from The DSSSList Digest V2 #120) From: "Jean-Baptiste Nivoit" <jbnivoit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 18:44:09 -0400 |
> As Jean-Baptiste points out, one can get the PDF from the >Postscript (if equipped with the appropriate commercial converter). Well not even, Ghostscript support s device named PDFwrite that allows it to transform PS into PDF (it also comes with a 'ps2pdf' shell script that invokes the interpreter with the adequate options). >However, despite that, if I could only get one and got to pick which >one, I would choose PDF, largely because it is better supported BY THE >PARTICULAR GROUP of people I'm typically producing for (I decline to >venture an opinion on the more general question). I personnally would rather for PS first, since PDF is so easy to get after (either with GhostScript or the Adobe Distiller), whereas i can't think of anything that translates PDF into PS. However i am not sure how GhostScript handles it when you have images embedded in the PostScript, i believe PS is less flexible than PDF on that matter.. > BTW, a decent plain ASCII (i.e. emailable in an SMTP message as >formatted but not marked up plain text) would be even more useful. >There are obvious issues with such functionality (what does one do with >non-ASCII characters, for example). My current approach to this one is >to use the RTF backend and then save the resulting file as text, which >sort of works but is less than totally satisfactory. You do want some formatting, though, right? jb. DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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