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Re: Difference between ps and pdf
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Matěj Cepl |
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Re: Difference between ps and pdf |
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Wed, 06 Apr 2016 09:36:14 +0200 |
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On 2016-04-06, 02:40 GMT, Valery Ushakov wrote:
> 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.
Yes, Oliver's example seems to work perfectly well when the
PostScript generated by lout is run through ps2pdf (from GPL
Ghostscript 9.07 (2013-02-14)) as seen on
https://mcepl.fedorapeople.org/tmp/lout-graphics-test.pdf
Best,
Matěj
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