I have used GhostScript for awhile. And it works great for that purpose.
Steve Rybin.
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From: Elliotte Rusty Harold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 7:19 AM
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Subject: Re: XSL-FO Engine comparisons
At 10:28 PM +0100 7/31/01, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>Elliotte Rusty Harold writes:
> > The downside to this otherwise excellent engine is that it's Windows
> > only and based on Windows graphics primitives rather than PostScript or
> > PDF. It displays on the screen very nicely, and prints nicely too.
> > However, it does not produce a PDF document that I can send to my editor
> > or a typesetter.
>Cant you print PS to file and Distill it?
>
I suppose I could, but only if somebody knows of an open source tool for
distilling files. After the Skylarov fiasco, I'll be damned if I'm going to
give Adobe one more penny.
Hmm, after a little hunting around with Google it looks like GhostScript
might actually do that. I'll have to give it a try.
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