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Re: Using ps2pdf - enhancements?

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From ken <ken@spamcop.net>
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Subject Re: Using ps2pdf - enhancements?
Date Wed, 27 Apr 2011 07:50:35 +0100
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In article <slrnirf0u0.8k4.nospam-abuse@chorin.math.berkeley.edu>, 
nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org says...
 
> I'm puzzled why ps2pdf are so limited w.r.t. their options.  Why
> should people use clumsy gs command-lines directly when a trivial
> change to ps2pdf would allow much more flexible syntax?

Because people strangely expect ps2pdf to work the same on all systems. 
Your chanegs will only work on the shell script version of ps2pdf, they 
can't be made to work on the Windows batch file for example.

But of course you are more than welcome to develop your own script.

			Ken

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Using ps2pdf - enhancements? Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org> - 2011-04-27 02:47 +0000
  Re: Using ps2pdf - enhancements? ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2011-04-27 07:50 +0100
    Re: Using ps2pdf - enhancements? Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org> - 2011-04-27 07:52 +0000

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