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To: "Hossein S. Zadeh" <hossein@bf.rmit.edu.au>
cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] RE: ODBC and RDO 
In-reply-to: <Pine.OSF.4.02.9912282207030.18986-100000@otto.bf.rmit.edu.au> 
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Comments: In-reply-to "Hossein S. Zadeh" <hossein@bf.rmit.edu.au>
	message dated "Tue, 28 Dec 1999 22:14:45 +1100"
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 10:23:41 -0500
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

"Hossein S. Zadeh" <hossein@bf.rmit.edu.au> writes:
> On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Tom Lane wrote:
>> 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.

> FYI, Ghostscript (on Linux) has had this at least since late 1998
> (I have "ps2pdf" as part of ghostscript 5.10 on a RedHat 5.2).

Sorry, I should have said that gs 6.0 will have a much better PDF
writer than before.

			regards, tom lane