From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
Cc: Peter Mount <peter@retep.org.uk>
Cc: Robert Hiltibidal <rob@y2k.state.il.us>
Cc: Hiroki Kataoka <kataoka@interwiz.koganei.tokyo.jp>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] RE: ODBC and RDO
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 11:21:37 -0500
Message-ID: <26342.946311697@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <38678CFD.9AB215A3@alumni.caltech.edu>
References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9912271527580.5421-100000@maidast.retep.org.uk>
<38678CFD.9AB215A3@alumni.caltech.edu>
Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:
> ... Folks have generated PDF from the PS files (they are
> available at ftp://postgresql.org) but afaik direct generation of PDF
> would have the same drawbacks as other formats wrt needing minor
> markup fixes. The current scheme is definitely *not* ideal, but it
> works and the tools are available to me on my Linux box (doesn't PDF
> have some proprietary tools required?).
FYI, the soon-to-appear 6.0 release of Ghostscript will have PDF-writing
capability: feed it a plain PS file, get PDF. I haven't played with it,
but I believe it will be a reasonable freeware substitute for Adobe's
PDF-creation tools.
regards, tom lane
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