If it's any help, I have done this - made code to generate postscript & then
had it feed through Adobe's Acrobat Distiller to product PDF for publication
on an intranet.
If anyone needs to do it, I'd be happy to try to assist. There are also
libraries out there that generate PDF directly if that's better for the
particular application. Haven't tried them yet.
Mike N.
JavaCorporate Ltd
http://www.javacorporate.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Lauren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 1999 6:30 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Harcoding vs. Templates
At 01:31 PM 5/18/99 , Justin Wells wrote:
>Right. But that binary is generated from postscript, at some level,
>which has a well defined textual structure (it's actually a
>programming language). You'd have to run that
>postscript through a post-processor to get the PDF, but I don't see
>why it can't be done. RTF is also textual.
>
It could have been generated by a PS->PDF converter (like Distiller), but
the PDF with binary content can be created by Acrobat, Exchange, or any
other native PDF creator. Postscript is not the only source of PDF binary
content.
And BTW, the PS language may be well defined, but it is typically not
generated all that well - our claim to fame is that we are the most
compatible with DP apps that generate non-DSC compliant PS. We mostly do
that by filtering the PS into something much closer to being DSC compliant.
FWIW,
LCB
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