* Re: [9fans] Inferno /sys/doc: PDFs are actually PS?
2008-01-18 11:24 ` Charles Forsyth
@ 2008-01-18 13:38 ` Wes Kussmaul
2008-01-18 14:27 ` Martin Neubauer
2008-01-18 15:15 ` Alexander Sychev
` (2 subsequent siblings)
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From: Wes Kussmaul @ 2008-01-18 13:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
Charles Forsyth wrote:
> i should probably try the adobe site that converts single documents, if that's still there.
> i'm reluctant to buy a new acrobat copy just for one file.
OpenOffice Writer can output to pdf.
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* Re: [9fans] Inferno /sys/doc: PDFs are actually PS?
2008-01-18 11:24 ` Charles Forsyth
2008-01-18 13:38 ` Wes Kussmaul
@ 2008-01-18 15:15 ` Alexander Sychev
2008-01-18 19:50 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-18 15:30 ` Anant Narayanan
2008-01-18 15:47 ` Russ Cox
3 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread
From: Alexander Sychev @ 2008-01-18 15:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:24:31 +0300, Charles Forsyth
<forsyth@terzarima.net> wrote:
>> Why does Inferno
>> use the .pdf extension, then?
>
> that's what gs produced on plan 9 when i asked for pdf.
> i tried another program elsewhere, probably gs on linux, but it didn't
> fare any better.
> i should probably try the adobe site that converts single documents, if
> that's still there.
> i'm reluctant to buy a new acrobat copy just for one file.
> they lost my vote when they added javascript.
BTW, what a type of source files? Are they the TeX-files? In such case
.pdf might be produced by pdflatex ;-).
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* Re: [9fans] Inferno /sys/doc: PDFs are actually PS?
2008-01-18 15:15 ` Alexander Sychev
@ 2008-01-18 19:50 ` Pietro Gagliardi
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From: Pietro Gagliardi @ 2008-01-18 19:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
They are troff(1) source files using the ms(6) macro set (the
extension .ms). Man pages on Plan 9, though :-) TeX is available for
Plan 9, though
On Jan 18, 2008, at 10:15 AM, Alexander Sychev wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:24:31 +0300, Charles Forsyth
> <forsyth@terzarima.net> wrote:
>
>>> Why does Inferno
>>> use the .pdf extension, then?
>>
>> that's what gs produced on plan 9 when i asked for pdf.
>> i tried another program elsewhere, probably gs on linux, but it
>> didn't fare any better.
>> i should probably try the adobe site that converts single
>> documents, if that's still there.
>> i'm reluctant to buy a new acrobat copy just for one file.
>> they lost my vote when they added javascript.
>
> BTW, what a type of source files? Are they the TeX-files? In such
> case .pdf might be produced by pdflatex ;-).
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> santucco
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* Re: [9fans] Inferno /sys/doc: PDFs are actually PS?
2008-01-18 11:24 ` Charles Forsyth
2008-01-18 13:38 ` Wes Kussmaul
2008-01-18 15:15 ` Alexander Sychev
@ 2008-01-18 15:30 ` Anant Narayanan
2008-01-18 15:47 ` Russ Cox
3 siblings, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread
From: Anant Narayanan @ 2008-01-18 15:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
> that's what gs produced on plan 9 when i asked for pdf.
> i tried another program elsewhere, probably gs on linux, but it
> didn't fare any better.
gs on linux comes with a tool `ps2pdf' which seems to work fine on the
inferno documents.
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Anant
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* Re: [9fans] Inferno /sys/doc: PDFs are actually PS?
2008-01-18 11:24 ` Charles Forsyth
` (2 preceding siblings ...)
2008-01-18 15:30 ` Anant Narayanan
@ 2008-01-18 15:47 ` Russ Cox
2008-01-18 16:16 ` Charles Forsyth
3 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread
From: Russ Cox @ 2008-01-18 15:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
> that's what gs produced on plan 9 when i asked for pdf.
> i tried another program elsewhere, probably gs on linux, but it didn't fare any better.
> i should probably try the adobe site that converts single documents, if that's still there.
> i'm reluctant to buy a new acrobat copy just for one file.
> they lost my vote when they added javascript.
ps2pdf works fine on Plan 9: I just tested it on tk.ps.
The result is at http://swtch.com/tk.pdf
Judging from the contents of the current tk.pdf, it looks
like you might have slipped and run
pdf2ps tk.ps tk.pdf
instead of
ps2pdf tk.ps tk.pdf
The names of the commands are slight misnomers.
Only the ``2xxx'' part matters: they both accept either PS or PDF
as input. If you type the wrong one, then GhostScript
blindly converts PS -> PS or PDF -> PDF.
The current tk.pdf is definitely the output of GhostScript's PS writer.
Russ
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* Re: [9fans] Inferno /sys/doc: PDFs are actually PS?
2008-01-18 15:47 ` Russ Cox
@ 2008-01-18 16:16 ` Charles Forsyth
2008-01-18 16:26 ` Charles Forsyth
0 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread
From: Charles Forsyth @ 2008-01-18 16:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
> Judging from the contents of the current tk.pdf, it looks
> like you might have slipped and run [pdf2ps]
of course, thank you; the error was in the mkfile and i didn't notice the implausible name
when it ran. perhaps i then dutifully copied the same name if i ran it by hand on linux systems,
although i thought i'd snarfed and sent darren bane's suggested command for plan9ports.
a little mystery but who really cares? i'll ship the updated pdf
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