From: David J. Dachtera [djesys.nospam@earthlink.net]
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 9:09 PM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: Re: Postscript to Word conversion?

David Mathog wrote:
> 
> In article <908gr8$aku$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, byatesiii@my-deja.com writes:
> >
> >Hmm, Ghostscript for VMS? I searched long and hard for postscript,
> >found alot of unix/linux stuff, but no VMS. Will try again! Got
> >pointers, anyone?
> 
>   http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/aladdin/get601.html
> 
> It needed a few minor tweaks to build.  Contact me by email
> if you have a problem.

Can you post the VMS binaries? ...an object library or two at least?

I have server space, if that's a problem.
 
> Why didn't you say so in the first place?  Ghostscript will definitely
> convert Postscript to PDF - I use it for that all the time.   Try:
> 
>  $ gs "-sDEVICE=pdfwrite" "-dNOPAUSE" "-sOutputFile=yourchoice.pdf" yourfile.ps

I don't have a link to xv right now, but doesn't that come with a ps2pdf
utility?

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