Vengeance Against Adobe

Bodo Moeller bmoeller at hrzpub.tu-darmstadt.de
Thu Jul 26 13:25:39 PDT 2001


Riad S. Wahby <rsw at mit.edu>:
> Ian Goldberg <iang at abraham.cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:

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

> It is just a ps to pdf converter, but it generates better PDFs than
> ps2pdf (that is, smaller, better font handling, etc).

In recent ghostscript version, ps2pdf has become much better than it
used to be.  And for LaTeX stuff you can totally avoid PostScript by
using pdflatex, which should be part of every good TeX distribution
these days.





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