From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/13953 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Re[2]: resolution Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 12:46:38 +0100 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20031027124214.02ec9868@server-1> References: <006a01c39b0d$d1bc6210$01fd5644@playroom> <30102.1067169604@www45.gmx.net> <002201c39bda$8995d660$01fd5644@playroom> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1067276426 21229 80.91.224.253 (27 Oct 2003 17:40:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 17:40:26 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Mon Oct 27 16:28:14 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AE9Hy-0001mx-00 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 16:28:14 +0100 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05A4C10B27; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 16:28:10 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from mail.solcon.net (mail.solcon.net [212.45.33.5]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 151D010B2F for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 16:06:08 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by mail.solcon.net (8.11.6/8.9.3) with ESMTP id h9RF60310899 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 16:06:01 +0100 Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 4E8F32336A; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 16:05:52 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from laptop-3.wxs.nl (unknown [10.100.1.191]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1A7E23360 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 15:05:47 +0000 (UTC) X-Sender: hagen-mail@server-1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: <002201c39bda$8995d660$01fd5644@playroom> Original-References: <006a01c39b0d$d1bc6210$01fd5644@playroom> <30102.1067169604@www45.gmx.net> <002201c39bda$8995d660$01fd5644@playroom> Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:13953 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:13953 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