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To: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
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Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] RE: ODBC and RDO 
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Comments: In-reply-to Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
	message dated "Mon, 27 Dec 1999 15:59:57 +0000"
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 11:21:37 -0500
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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