Re: Difference between ps and pdf

Oliver Bandel <[email protected]> Wed, 06 Apr 2016 12:50:11 +0200

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

> 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?
[...]


ps2pdf relies on Ghostscript, which is a Postscript-interpreter.
So, if Ghostscript renders Postscript correctly, chances are good, that
the pdf will work too.

Ciao,
    Oliver