Re: Difference between ps and pdf

[Oliver Bandel]

Zitat von Valery Ushakov <address@hidden> (Wed, 6 Apr 2016 05:40:15 +0300)

> 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.
[...]

OK.
But a warning from lout, that some problems may have occurred
in case, where pdf-output will not be working correctly, would make  
sense IMHO.


Ciao,
   Oliver