> In my configuration ghostscript produces pretty nice pdf-output (from
> ps-files)
>
> the shell script
> -----
> # !/bin/bash
> #
> # make-pdf $1
> #
> # give job name as first parameter (e.g. to convert music.dvi to music.pdf
> # call this script as 'make-pdf music')
> #
> dvips $1
> gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=$1.pdf -dNOPAUSE $1.ps quit.ps
> # end of make-pdf
> -----
> should run on any unix machine (gs version is 5.10, dvips is 5.82).
it'll run (perhaps) but with that version of gs it will use bitmapped
fonts for *everything*.
pdf with bitmapped fonts is highly undesirable. with nothing but,
it's essentially unreadable in the commonest viewer (acrobat reader).
of course, you _can_ print it, often quite satisfactorily. but with
bitmapped fonts you might just as well have stuck with the original
postscript -- you gain *nothing* significant by distilling.
