Version ifhp-3.5.5 - Fri Feb 22 16:47:59 PST 2002
  Replaced PDF2PS with the GhostScript conversion stuff.
   (Idea from:  Thies Meincke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)


Patrick Powell                 Astart Technologies,
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> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jan 24 08:18:39 2002
> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 16:25:57 +0100 (NFT)
> From: Thies Meincke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: LPRng: PDF problem
>
> Hi,
>
> thanks to Christoph; his methods works. I tried
> Joel's advice (gs) too, however, with bad results so far.
> Maybe the reason is gs does not like PDF as stdin, as the
> use.htm of gs 7.03 says:
>
>   ...
>   PDF files from standard input
>
>   Using the "-" or "-_" switch you can provide PDF input from a file,
>   but not from a pipe, because the PDF language, unlike the PostScript
>   language, inherently requires random access to the file, while a pipe is
>   always sequential. That is,
>
>      gs -_ < somefile.pdf                               (is permissible)
>      {some program producing PDF} | gs -_               (is not permissible)
>   ...
>
>
> Anyway, maybe Patrick can fix it in future releases of ifhp??
>
> Thanks for all who contributed,
>
> Thies Meincke

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