On 23/11/06, Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Other similar pages don't have the problem. The problem postscript
> pages have the correct size in gv, but when converted their size is
> different and they are cropped when viewd as pdfs. I have munged about
> in the PS files without success - I don't really know what I'm doing.
Well who does - short of learning a lot of tedious reverse polish code
in detail.
Did you mean you tried with Adobe Distiller? If that doesn't work,
you're probably out of luck unless you can do a detailed postscript
fixup job (which looks like it won't be less than a few hours of work).
Yes. I got someone who has access to distill to try it for me. Same
result as ps2pdf
My only quick suggestion would be to try to enclose the page in
gsave 0.9 0.9 scale
... page here
grestore
to see if it can be scaled. Chances are it doesn't work because
something monkeyed with the dictionaries. Search the PS for the American
page size numbers (612, 792, and one less to be sure) and change them
too.
It's not american size paper that is the problem. The problem is that
the generated pdf somehow gets the wrong size - it gets the size of
the .eps that is embedded in the page, instead of the size of the page
itself.
> There is one way I can get correct size pdf files - using a "print to
> pdf" service. Unfortunately, even at a low 300dpi quality the file is
> huge. And unsearchable (each page is a bunch of bitmaps glued
> together, I think).
If so, the "service" is useless. Surely there must be better ones.
It's set up as a "printer" aon the network at work.
Doesn't Adobe run one too? I was under the impression there are several
of these services, which did you try?
Haven't tried any others yet. I think most are fnt ends to distill or
ps2pdf anyway.
> So, does anyone have any other suggestionson how to convert the ps to
> pdf correctly?
Look at pdftk. Is the PS more usable if you convert it back to PS from
PDF with pdftops (part of xpdf)? Don't use pdf2ps (part of ghostscript),
which is totally useless.
Will try pdftk. Looks interesting. I could try ps2pdf->pdftops, but
I'm not hopeful.
Carl.
