Re: Re[2]: resolution

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 17:02 26/10/2003, you wrote:
> > > Uh duhhhh...
> > >
> > > on Windows its ps2pdf, and it is in ..\gs\lib
> > yes that's right, but I think that ps2pdf and pstopdf is not the same...
> > ps2pdf is a batchfile in the gs library
> > and pstopdf is a ruby "script" which is packed in the "cont-exa.zip". this
> > need ruby and gs.
>
>I know nothing about Ruby, and its not on any of my systems.
>AFAIK, ps2pdf on Windows is identical to pstopdf on Linux (and OSX).
>It (they?) are distributed with gs, not ConTeXt, and call gs, no Ruby
>involved.
>I have no idea why it has two names.  Maybe I've missed something.
>
>If you are trying to accomplish something that the Ruby version offers ... I
>can't help you there.
>If you are simply converting [e]ps to pdf, try ps2pdf and see if you get
>what you want.

pstopdf.rb is a more extensive version of the eps to pdf converter in 
texutil.pl and uses GS for the conversion; however, pstopdf has a couple of 
extra features, like cropping, aggresive clean up of code, taking care of 
platform differences.

pstopdf.rb is also used by pstopdf.pdf i.e. a graphical user interface to 
ps to pdf conversion

pstopdf.rb can also watch folders and do automatic conversions

BTW, the manual can be downloaded from out site.

Hans