Re: Server-side postscript-to-PDF on-the-fly conversion
| From: | Paul M Foster | Date: | Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:04:19 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Server-side postscript-to-PDF on-the-fly conversion | ||
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On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 08:57:02PM +0100, Frank Arensmeier wrote:
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>
> If your webserver runs on MacOSX, look out for a binary called
> 'pstopdf'. From the man page:
>
> [...]
> pstopdf is a tool to convert PostScript input data into a PDF
> document. The input data may come from a file
> or may be read from stdin. The PDF document is always written to
> a file. The name of the output PDF file is
> derived from the name of the input file or may be explicitly
> named using the -o option.
> [...]
This is a fairly standard application on all *nix boxes. That's why
MacOS includes it. And if your hosting platform is Linux, it's probably
there as well.
Paul
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Paul M. Foster