Re: PDF file generation.
Matt Garman <garman@uiuc.edu> wrote:
> Well, in my experience, I've never seen a ps-to-pdf converter that works.
Do you use Potato, Woody or Sid? The problem seems to be, that
Ghostscript with versions < 6.5 seems to be broken with respect to PDF
generation (ps-to-pdf converters are usually scripts that call
Ghostscript to do the work). Rumours go that version 7.0 is
whacky. So, you need Ghostscript version 6.5, if you want to do
ps-->PDF. In Debian, this is only available in Sid. So, if you want to
do ps-->PDF, You have either to run Sid, or to compile Ghostscript 6.5
by yourself.
> In particular, if the
> documents were originally written in TeX/LaTeX, there is a program called
> "pdflatex" that converts LaTeX documents into PDF, and has always worked
> correctly in my experience.
How do you include pictures in your PDF documents? PDFlatex wants
pictures in PDF format, and these are hard to generate if the ps-to-PDF
converter is broken
Regards,
Paul Huygen
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