Re: ps2pdf utils

[Matthias Drochner <M.Drochner%fz-juelich.de@localhost>]

reed%reedmedia.net@localhost said:
> Prosper uses Postscript features from  pstricks.

Yes I see:
(/usr/pkg/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/pstricks/pstricks.sty
(/usr/pkg/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pstricks/pstricks.tex
`PSTricks' v1.04  <2004/06/22> (tvz)
(/usr/pkg/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pstricks/pstricks.con))

> You mention using pdflatex instead of latex-dvips-ps2pdf.

Partly because I need it as pdf finally anyway, so I'd save
some processing steps, and partly because everybody seems to
recommend it.
(The processing steps argument doesn't hold if I need to
import graphics -- many graphics editors can export eps but
not pdf, so I pay with additional conversions here.)

> See http://tug.org/PSTricks/main.cgi?file=pdf/pdfoutput

Thanks - that's a lot of useful information.

> Or look for pdftricks and maybe prosper can use it instead?

I see -- but that is cumbersome to use. I think I'll
stick to dvi and ps for now.

Btw, the wip/pdftk pkg did serve me well to help borrowing
slides from other presentations. I'll consider importing it
into pkgsrc after the freeze.

best regards
Matthias




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