ps2pdf without breaking into many pages

Michael Still mikal at stillhq.com
Wed May 29 09:20:47 EST 2002


On Wed, 29 May 2002, John Griffiths wrote:

> At 06:35 PM 5/28/02 +0100, Richard Cottrill wrote:
> >To change the subject a lot.
> >
> >Is there a way to convert Postscript to pdf without doing it one page at a
> >time? I had a look at the ps2pdf/gs solution and I can't see how to get it
> >to produce one pdf for a multipage document. Is there a way to stitch
> >together many pdf files into just one?
> >
> >Richard
> >
>
> If you want it took good, and use LZW compression (much smaller file) then
> acrobat distiller (comes with the acro exchange package) is a very good
> solution

LZW wont work with xpdf, and many of the open source viewers. Ghostscript
will compress the PDF contents for you if you ask nicely -- using Flate.

Mikal

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Michael Still (mikal at stillhq.com)     UMT+10hrs





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