On 10/23/2010 02:28 PM, John Culleton wrote: > On Saturday 23 October 2010 07:52:01 Peter Nermander wrote: >>> In this imperfect world my solution is one, two, three. >>> 1. pdf2ps (or save as ps) >>> 2. run my script >>> 3. ps2pdf >> >> But when you convert a PDF to postscript you lose a lot of it's >> features. >> >> That's why I don't want to involve plain postscript anywhere in my >> workflow. >> >> I feel it's a bit like converting images from JPEG to GIF because >> the tools can't handle JPEG... >> >> /Peter >> >> _______________________________________________ >> scribus mailing list >> scribus at lists.scribus.info >> http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus > > What features would you lose? PDF is basically PostScript without all > the programmability. > > Do you gain them back when you convert the other way, ps2pdf? > I just converted a file from pdf to ps and then from ps to pdf again. > The second pdf file was only slightly smaller than the original. > PS and PDF are a lot closer related than JPEG and Gif.
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/cvs/Ps2pdf.htm#Limitations Greg
