Re: [PLUG] OT: Publisher 98 to PDF

[Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr@lazerware.com>]

At 12:22 PM -0400 5/1/02, Paul wrote:
> I just used Ghostscript (for Windows since I'm working on a solution
> for a Windows user) to convert a Postscript file into a PDF.  The PS
> file is 3k, the PDF is 41k!

	What version of Ghostscript?   Are you embedding fonts?  Did 
you enable compression?   What command line options did you give to 
GS?


>  What's going on?!  Maybe I missed
> something, but if a PS file is always that much smaller, why use PDF?

	A PS file is not always smaller than PDF - depends on what is 
in the PS.  As to why use PDF - LOTS of good reasons.  Let me know if 
you want them listed...


> Also, the converted PDF has the same quality as the PS when viewed in
> GSview, but it doesn't look as good when viewed with Acrobat Reader
> 4.0.

	Can you be more specific?   Can you post both the PS and PDF 
for me to look at??


Leonard
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