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[David Moberg <davidjmoberg AT gmail.com>]

On 11/8/05, mikkel meinike <mimeini AT gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/8/05, David Moberg <davidjmoberg AT gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 11/8/05, mikkel meinike <mimeini AT gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 11/7/05, sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
>
> > There is no free lunch if you are using ps files. pstopdf is just a
> > script which needs gs.
>
> That is strange David because in VL4 that I have there was pstopdf or
> ps2pdf I don't remember with out gs I was able to convert ps output
> from abiword to pdf before I installed gs.

>From the ps2pdf manpage:

'ps2pdf - Convert PostScript to PDF using ghostscript'

It is useless without ghostscript. I do not have pstopdf; perhaps this is
an xpdf tool which does not need ghostscript?

David