>>>>> "Nick" == Nick Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Nick> Murray Adelman wrote:
>> Ghostscript has a script that converts ps to pdf, so you don't
>> need a proprietary program to produce it. I would agree that
>> it shouldn't replace ps but perhaps both can be available.
I recently changed my site over from ps to pdf. The music wasn't so
bad; there is more interest in the ABC and the MIDI versions than in
either the postscript or the pdf. But I kept telling people who had
never heard of postscript to get my resume off the site, and they
would tell me it didn't work, which turned out to mean that they didn't
have a postscript printer.
There are still problems with ps2pdf (the conversion script that comes
with recent ghostscripts) -- for one thing, the compression algorithm
that adobe uses is proprietary, so my pdf's actually come out a little
bigger than the ps file they come from.
I've also had some minor printing problems -- if you look at
http://www.world.std.com/~lconrad/music/weelkes/jockey/allparts.pdf,
my .ps file prints the way I expect, but when I print the pdf file,
the bars for first and second repeat don't look right.
So I would agree that in the current state of the technology, if disk
space isn't a problem, both formats should be available.
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