Vengeance Against Adobe

[Ian Goldberg]

In article <p04320442b782e93b4073@[10.1.1.35]>,
Petro  <petro at bounty.org> wrote:
>At 9:56 PM -0700 7/23/01, Eric Cordian wrote:
>>Tim writes:
>>
>>> Adobe's use of police state measures to have a minor critic (by their 
>>> own later admission) yanked out of a conference is not likely to be 
>>> forgotten quickly. I expect this will have consequences when they 
>>> eventually resume college recruiting. Adobe will likely face sneers 
>>> and derisive laughter when it shows up on college campuses next 
>>> spring to recruit.
>>
>>Adobe's pulling back on Dmitry doesn't change the fact that the company
>>lied in saying what was being distributed was "copyrighted Adobe
>>software."
>>
>>Despite the EFF's effusive praise of Adobe, I don't plan to use any Adobe
>>software in the future.
>
>	Is there a workable freeware alternative to Distiller? 

I've never used Distiller; is it more than a Postscript-to-PDF
converter?  The free ps2pdf is part of ghostscript.

   - Ian