[iText-questions] Re: PS to PDF

2005-11-22 Thread Ross Presser
[Top posting error corrected.] On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 00:27:35 +0100, Carsten Hammer wrote: > Ross Presser wrote: >> On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 10:39:58 + (UTC), John Smith wrote: >> >>>Hi, >>> >>>I was wondering if it was possible to convert any PostScript files to PDF >>>with the iText API. I guess

[iText-questions] Re: PS to PDF

2005-11-21 Thread Carsten Hammer
In fact itext uses the postscript engine from http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/2D/samples/ which knows most commands of the postscript language but not all. You can easily showthis if you add a postscript programm like this to your document: PdfContentByte cb = pdfwriter.getDirectConte

[iText-questions] Re: PS to PDF

2005-11-20 Thread Ross Presser
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 10:39:58 + (UTC), John Smith wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering if it was possible to convert any PostScript files to PDF > with the iText API. I guess the answer is no (we can only add EPS files) > but I wanted to be sure. No, this operation is known as distillation; you w

[iText-questions] Re: PS to PDF

2004-03-02 Thread Carsten Hammer
Hi Bill, the last time I saw it it has been shareware. Its a pity if it is dead. For someone addicted to challenges sun offers sourcecode of a postscript interpreter implementing a subset of postscript at their java pages. It uses javacc for its parser, so anybody willing to extend it should be