Re: [Sheflug] PDF

[Will Newton <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 04 Nov 2001 8:47 pm, you wrote:

> I've been happily producing PDF files for some time with ps2pdf.  I
> now find that it's no longer available.  Or ... I just can't find a
> download page.

dogfox:/home/will# dpkg -S `which ps2pdf`
gs-common: /usr/bin/ps2pdf

Debian still has it. Ghostscript 6.51. It should be on sourceforge.
If you're generating PDFs from LaTeX I would recommend using pdflatex 
instead, it seems to produce better output.

> I can see that there is another editing tool on my hard drive which
> is pstoedit.  Does this produce PDF files from postscript and if so
> how do I use it to convert PS to PDF ?  Tried looking for a man page
> and a web site but can't find those either.

pstoedit converts to a format xfig can load so you can edit graphical figures.
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