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On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 00:03 +0200, Simonse, Arco (CMK) wrote:
> Hi Scott ,
>  
> > > a) There's open source software called Ghostscript that 
> > will convert 
> > > from PostScript a million other formats, including PDF and PCL.  It 
> > > doesn't run natively on the iSeries, but Ghostscript will run under 
> > > PASE.
> > 
> > I know of ghostscript. Does Ghostscript require modifications 
> > for running under PASE ?
> > 
> 
> I found something from Brian Dietz in the archives about Ghostscript and
> PASE.
> 
> http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/200205/msg00517.html
> 
> I'll check it out. 

Very interesting.  Especially as ps2pdf is just eventually calling
ghostscript:

exec gs $OPTIONS -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite "-sOutputFile=
$outfile"
$OPTIONS -c .setpdfwrite -f "$infile"



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