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Re: What advantage; gs-aladdin vs. gs?



On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Gary Singleton wrote:

> With all the discussion about these two over the last
> couple of days I have to ask what the advantage of
> gs-aladdin is (if any)?  I read the FAQ on Wisconsin's
> home for Ghostscript and in section 1.3 it states that
> the only difference is in licensing.  The only
> difference there is apparently that the Aladdin
> license prohibits _any_ commercial distribution.  If
> this is correct, why would someone choose to run
> gs-aladdin over gs?  I _must_ be missing something.
> 
The conversion ps->pdf works fine in gs-aladdin (5.50),
and sometimes gives very ugly results in gs (5.10) (particularly
in eps graphics).
			Wojtek Zabolotny
			wzab@ise.pw.edu.pl


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