Re: Difference between ps and pdf

Oliver Bandel <[email protected]> Wed, 06 Apr 2016 12:39:01 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.type-setting.lout
Message-ID <20160406123901.Horde.C46ffgKJUncD6L769pWCrP4@webmail.in-berlin.de>
Zitat von Valery Ushakov <[email protected]> (Wed, 6 Apr 2016 05:40:15 +0300)

> 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.
[...]

OK.
But a warning from lout, that some problems may have occurred
in case, where pdf-output will not be working correctly, would make  
sense IMHO.


Ciao,
    Oliver