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Scott,

I'll have to look closer at the Adobe option.  I didn't realize it could output 
PostScript.  That might fit the bill nicely.  ;)

Thanks for the tip!

Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 12:03 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Looking for options: PDF to PS conversion



Hello Eric,

I know of two other options.  (Three options if you include Ghostscript). 
I don't know how much help they are, since I've only used them on FreeBSD 
and Linux machines, but theoretically it should be possible to run the AIX 
versions in PASE.

1) pdftops from the xpdf project. (Probably has the same support issues
     as Ghostscript.)

2) Adobe Reader (formerly known as Acrobat Reader) from Adobe.


By far, the best quality rendering comes from Adobe -- which is no 
surprise, since it's the same software that most PDFs are created with, 
and almost every PDF is tested with Adobe Reader on Windows.  But perhaps 
the surprising part is that you can run it to simply convert PDF to 
PostScript.  To do that, you run the following from a command line:

    acroread7 -toPostScript -pairs inputfile.pdf outputfile.ps

Again, I know it works nicely on Linux, but I haven't tried it in PASE. 
Might be worth looking into.


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