Re: Jade Backends (from The DSSSList Digest V2 #120)

["Jean-Baptiste Nivoit" <jbnivoit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 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.



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