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Re: Using ps2pdf - enhancements?

From Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org>
Newsgroups comp.lang.postscript
Subject Re: Using ps2pdf - enhancements?
Date 2011-04-27 07:52 +0000
Organization U.C. Berkeley Math. Department.
Message-ID <slrnirfiqa.btj.nospam-abuse@chorin.math.berkeley.edu> (permalink)
References <slrnirf0u0.8k4.nospam-abuse@chorin.math.berkeley.edu> <MPG.2821cd1bfb5278bc989839@usenet.plus.net>

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On 2011-04-27, ken <ken@spamcop.net> wrote:
> 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.

So what?  Anyway, as shipped, the OS/2 version (REXX) does not work
the way the Bourne one does.  I'm pretty sure the similar problems
exist for the Windows version as well.

Puzzled,
Ilya

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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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