Re: Postscript to PDF conversion

[david]

No it is not strictly true that you must work through
a command line to use ghostscript - whilst ghostscript itself is
a command line utility - 

the two rather excelent applications I use are:

Ghostview - which provides a fully functional GUI to ghostscript
        The latest release I know is V4.3 it also has many utilities

and

Ghostword - which is a clever plug in for MS-Word Powerpoint and Excel
        which also works without them. 
        This also puts all features into GUI form although I cant seem
        to integrate it properly with Powerpoint or Excel 2000 and      
        have to print to a ps file and run it manually for those.

A search on google will bring them both up.

On the subject of graphics - there are settings in both to set 
screen/printer/pre-press settings as well as different graphics settings 
- (acrobat itself has problems in not re-compressing apparently - so you 
can use ZIP from within Ghostword)

These will convert to adobe standard 1.2- 1.4. which is suitable for 
acrobat versions 3 - 5.

Beware of some MS-Windows TTF fonts - ones I know of are: Verdana and 
Garamond cause trouble at the PDF stage (Ghostview sees them fine)

Hope this helps.


-david-