Re: Difference between ps and pdf

Matěj Cepl <[email protected]> Wed, 06 Apr 2016 13:07:34 +0200

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On 2016-04-06, 10:50 GMT, Oliver Bandel wrote:
> ps2pdf relies on Ghostscript, which is  
> a Postscript-interpreter.  So, if Ghostscript renders 
> Postscript correctly, chances are good, that the pdf will work 
> too. 

Yes, but PostScript is a full programming language, PDF is just 
a subset.

Matěj

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