Re: [PLUG] OT: Publisher 98 to PDF

["Arthur S. Alexion" <arthur@alexion.com>]

At 12:22 PM 5/1/2002 -0400, you 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's going on?!  Maybe I missed
> something, but if a PS file is always that much smaller, why use PDF?
>
> 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.  Another PDF that I downloaded looks just as good in both
> viewers.  I guess I am missing something.


I have never used GhostScript for Windows.  Gabriel was right that earlier 
Linux versions did a much poorer job than the newer versions.  that may 
have something to do with your problem.

The PDF should be smaller than the PS with one exception: the PDF will grow 
if you embed fonts.

The version of ps2pdf that I am currently using (I think its 6.something 
for linux) does a reasonably good job creating PDFs.  I very much miss the 
things that I can do with the distiller (windows) that can't be done in 
Linux at a reasonable price.  Seems Adobe has abandoned the Unix desktop 
(there is an expensive Distiller Server product), and no one picking up the 
ball has come close to the Acrobat product.




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