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From: Hul Tytus <ht@panix.com>
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Subject: Re: pdf definition
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 22:44:50 +0000 (UTC)
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Thanks for the suggestions. The Java version might be ok for a 
translation to c.

Hul

Jeffrey H. Coffield <jeffrey@digitalsynergyinc.com> wrote:


> On 09/27/2020 04:59 PM, Hul Tytus wrote:
> >       Anyone know where to find a technical definition of PDF? I need to convert
> > a text file to ps and then to pdf. Text to ps is simple and complete. The ps
> > to PDF format is the current trouble. Or maybe text to PDF directly. There is
> > no need for compression, so, if that can be omitted it would good.
> >    Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> >
> > Hul
> >

> Ghostscript will work if you can accept the speed.

> If you know Java then Apache PDFBox at https://pdfbox.apache.org/ will 
> produce PDFs much faster.

> Jeff Coffield
> www.digitalsynergyinc.com