Re: Difference between ps and pdf

Matěj Cepl <[email protected]> Wed, 06 Apr 2016 09:32:09 +0200

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On 2016-04-06, 02:40 GMT, Valery Ushakov wrote:
> 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. 

My question is whether Lout generated PostScript travels without 
problems to PDF via ps2pdf. Could one be certain that whatever 
tricks they make in PostScript will carry to PDF?

Matěj

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