Re: PDF Writer for Linux ?

[Felix Natter <fnatter@gmx.net>]

Christopher Splinter <chris@splinter.inka.de> writes:

> * Jeff Noxon <jeff@planetfall.com> wrote:
> 
> > gs contains a program called ps2pdf that will convert any
> > Postscript file to PDF.
> 
> ps2pdf is only a wrapper around ghostscript:
> 
> ,----[ ps2pdf ]
> | [...]
> | # Doing an initial 'save' helps keep fonts from being flushed between pages.
> | exec gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=$outfile $OPTIONS -c save pop -f $infile
> `----

do you happen to know whether ps2ascii is safe ?

I am using gs 5.5 and it does not use -dSAFER, so I guess you the postscript
might potentially write files ?

-- 
Felix Natter