From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Inferno /sys/doc: PDFs are actually PS?
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:47:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080118154717.B76381E8C2B@holo.morphisms.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5321cab0487ed8d5df567e456963913e@terzarima.net>
> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-18 15:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-18 2:18 Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-18 10:00 ` Uriel
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
2008-01-18 19:50 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-18 15:30 ` Anant Narayanan
2008-01-18 15:47 ` Russ Cox [this message]
2008-01-18 16:16 ` Charles Forsyth
2008-01-18 16:26 ` Charles Forsyth
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