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| From | Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.postscript |
| Subject | Re: Using ps2pdf - enhancements? |
| Date | Wed, 27 Apr 2011 07:52:42 +0000 (UTC) |
| Organization | U.C. Berkeley Math. Department. |
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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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