Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line
On Wed 17 Jan 2018 at 21:04:03 +0100, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 06:21:31PM +0000, Brian wrote:
> > On Wed 10 Jan 2018 at 21:01:13 +0100, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > > Thanks for actually trying out. I stand corrected...
> >
> > A gracious response. However, my data were in the context of using a2ps
> > to go from text to PS. Your "hefty PDFs" would be entirely correct if
> > paps had been used for the conversion. The result is a 156551 sized file
> > for me. gs2pdf comes up with a whopping 11540827 and takes 18 s to do so.
>
> Heh. I've been called all sort of names, but gracious... :-)
>
> > That was in 2015, Debian's paps does not relect the existence of a
> > 7.0 version. I wonder why?
>
> Yes, that might be the root of my dim memories.
>
> Thanks for your thorough investigation
Anyone can take part. Supporting data is always an advantage,
Anyway, I think I'll abandon my flirtation with paps and return to
something more suitable for efficiently converting text to a searchable
PDF.
--
Brian.
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