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ps2pdf, convert font to curve.

Started byJinsong Zhao <jszhao@yeah.net>
First post2011-12-17 23:22 +0800
Last post2011-12-18 03:50 +0200
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  ps2pdf, convert font to curve. Jinsong Zhao <jszhao@yeah.net> - 2011-12-17 23:22 +0800
    Re: ps2pdf, convert font to curve. ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2011-12-17 15:32 +0000
    Re: ps2pdf, convert font to curve. uhhu <M8R-kwn62n@mailinator.com> - 2011-12-17 18:34 +0200
      Re: ps2pdf, convert font to curve. ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2011-12-17 17:47 +0000
        Re: ps2pdf, convert font to curve. luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2011-12-17 12:08 -0800
          Re: ps2pdf, convert font to curve. ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2011-12-18 09:30 +0000
        Re: ps2pdf, convert font to curve. uhhu <M8R-kwn62n@mailinator.com> - 2011-12-18 03:50 +0200

#513 — ps2pdf, convert font to curve.

FromJinsong Zhao <jszhao@yeah.net>
Date2011-12-17 23:22 +0800
Subjectps2pdf, convert font to curve.
Message-ID<jcic47$b9l$1@dont-email.me>
Hi there,

I have learned that -dNOCACHE in ghostscript can do such thing when 
converting a pdf file to ps file. However, when converting a ps file to 
pdf file, the options seems not to work.

Thus, is it possible to convert font to curve?

Any suggestions or comments will be really appreciated.

Regards,
Jinsong

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#514

Fromken <ken@spamcop.net>
Date2011-12-17 15:32 +0000
Message-ID<MPG.2956c651174ad822989875@usenet.plus.net>
In reply to#513
In article <jcic47$b9l$1@dont-email.me>, jszhao@yeah.net says...

> I have learned that -dNOCACHE in ghostscript can do such thing when 
> converting a pdf file to ps file.

Only with th pswrite device which is deprecated, its replacement, 
ps2write, behaves the same as pdfwrite and embed fonts natively.

> However, when converting a ps file to 
> pdf file, the options seems not to work.
> 
> Thus, is it possible to convert font to curve?

No, not with ps2write or pdfwrite.


			Ken

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#515

Fromuhhu <M8R-kwn62n@mailinator.com>
Date2011-12-17 18:34 +0200
Message-ID<20111217183438.436ae6bf@core2>
In reply to#513
Jinsong Zhao <jszhao@yeah.net> 2011-12-17:

> I have learned that -dNOCACHE in ghostscript can do such thing when 
> converting a pdf file to ps file. However, when converting a ps file
> to pdf file, the options seems not to work.
> 
> Thus, is it possible to convert font to curve?

Yes.

ps2ps -dNOCACHE inputfile.ps tmp.ps
ps2pdf tmp.ps outputfile.pdf

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#516

Fromken <ken@spamcop.net>
Date2011-12-17 17:47 +0000
Message-ID<MPG.2956e5f327b4e226989876@usenet.plus.net>
In reply to#515
In article <20111217183438.436ae6bf@core2>, M8R-kwn62n@mailinator.com 
says...
> 
> Jinsong Zhao <jszhao@yeah.net> 2011-12-17:
> 
> > I have learned that -dNOCACHE in ghostscript can do such thing when 
> > converting a pdf file to ps file. However, when converting a ps file
> > to pdf file, the options seems not to work.
> > 
> > Thus, is it possible to convert font to curve?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> ps2ps -dNOCACHE inputfile.ps tmp.ps
> ps2pdf tmp.ps outputfile.pdf

New versions of ps2ps will use ps2write, not pswrite, and so I don't 
think will convert the glyphs to vectors.


	Ken

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#517

Fromluser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com>
Date2011-12-17 12:08 -0800
Message-ID<0c5fd923-42df-42b2-9d17-b77974dfd3ed@n39g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>
In reply to#516
On Dec 17, 11:47 am, ken <k...@spamcop.net> wrote:
> In article <20111217183438.436ae6bf@core2>, M8R-kwn...@mailinator.com
> says...
>
>
>
> > Jinsong Zhao <jsz...@yeah.net> 2011-12-17:
>
> > > I have learned that -dNOCACHE in ghostscript can do such thing when
> > > converting a pdf file to ps file. However, when converting a ps file
> > > to pdf file, the options seems not to work.
>
> > > Thus, is it possible to convert font to curve?
>
> > Yes.
>
> > ps2ps -dNOCACHE inputfile.ps tmp.ps
> > ps2pdf tmp.ps outputfile.pdf
>
> New versions of ps2ps will use ps2write, not pswrite, and so I don't
> think will convert the glyphs to vectors.
>
>         Ken

would a ps2oldps script be a useful addendum to the suite?

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#519

Fromken <ken@spamcop.net>
Date2011-12-18 09:30 +0000
Message-ID<MPG.2957c31f2877d8d4989877@usenet.plus.net>
In reply to#517
In article <0c5fd923-42df-42b2-9d17-
b77974dfd3ed@n39g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>, mijoryx@yahoo.com says...

> > New versions of ps2ps will use ps2write, not pswrite, and so I don't
> > think will convert the glyphs to vectors.
> >
> >         Ken
> 
> would a ps2oldps script be a useful addendum to the suite?


As uhhu says later, the device is still present (pswrite), but its 
deprecated, it'll probably be removed at some point. In the meantime you 
can still use it from the GS command line. The batch/script files were 
changed so that the default behavious is to use ps2write, otherwise 
nobody ever changes.....


		Ken

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#518

Fromuhhu <M8R-kwn62n@mailinator.com>
Date2011-12-18 03:50 +0200
Message-ID<20111218035026.0e113c34@core2>
In reply to#516
ken <ken@spamcop.net> 2011-12-17:

> In article <20111217183438.436ae6bf@core2>, M8R-kwn62n@mailinator.com 
> says...
> > 
> > Jinsong Zhao <jszhao@yeah.net> 2011-12-17:
> >   
> > > I have learned that -dNOCACHE in ghostscript can do such thing
> > > when converting a pdf file to ps file. However, when converting a
> > > ps file to pdf file, the options seems not to work.
> > > 
> > > Thus, is it possible to convert font to curve?  
> > 
> > Yes.
> > 
> > ps2ps -dNOCACHE inputfile.ps tmp.ps
> > ps2pdf tmp.ps outputfile.pdf  
> 
> New versions of ps2ps will use ps2write, not pswrite, 

Are you sure you mean ps2ps and not ps2ps2?

If they did change the script behavior, then this should work:

gs -dNOCACHE -sDEVICE=pswrite -o tmp.ps inputfile.ps
ps2pdf tmp.ps outputfile.ps

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