Re: Any cheap postscript laser printers for linux ?

"Mark T.B. Carroll" <Mark.Carroll@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
You can do things in PS you can't do in PDF, and
vice-versa. For instance, the PS self-formatting stuff I mentioned
elsewhere in this thread, I couldn't have done using PDF. But, you can
do transparency much easier in PDF than you can in PS. That's why it's
so much work to, say, write a converter from PS to PDF - they have
significant differences.

It's not more work than any other Postscript interpreter; just instead
of letting the graphics operators render the stuff, just collect them
into a PDF. If you have a Postscript interpreter (e.g., gs), you can
do that by redefining the names of these operators to output the PDF
graphics commands and their parameters, then appending the Postscript
file you want to convert, and let all of that run through your
Postscript interpreter. That's how early versions of the distiller
worked.

- anton
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