Re: Difference between ps and pdf

On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 04:30:29 +0200, Oliver Bandel wrote:

> I found two examples of lout-code, in which the postscript-output
> looks as expected, but the pdf-output (directly coming from loud) is
> crapped.

PDF backend is not really suitable for anything advanced.  It's ok for
text and tables, but graphics doesn't really work.  Advanced graphics
in Lout relies on PS interpreter to do computations to "finish" the
layout.  This obviously can't work with PDF.

-uwe