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Re: current thoughts on PDF back end
From: |
Christoph Breitkopf |
Subject: |
Re: current thoughts on PDF back end |
Date: |
Mon, 14 May 2001 12:44:14 +0400 (MSD) |
Jeff Kingston schrieb:
>
> Can I have people's current throughts on the need for maintaining
> a PDF back end. This back end never did diagrams, and now there
> seems to be something called ps2pdf that converts PostScript into
> pdf very reliably (so I'm told). Furthermore, hyperlinks have
> been added to PostScript now and Lout actually generates them.
>
> So I'm hypothesising that the best way forward from here would be
> to withdraw the PDF back and end tell people who want PDF to run
> the pipeline
>
> lout | ps2pdf
>
> However I'm not an expert on PDF by any means. Can those who
> know more about it tell me whether I'm making sense?
I'm even less of an expert, for sure, but I prefer the above
combination to lout -PDF. Works for me.
Regards,
Chris
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- Re: current thoughts on PDF back end, David Duffy, 2001/05/13
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- Re: current thoughts on PDF back end, bln, 2001/05/14
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Christoph Breitkopf <=
- Re: current thoughts on PDF back end, Christian Mock, 2001/05/14