Re: ANN: New UNIX programming book

From: Rich Teer (rich.teer_at_rite-group.com)
Date: 09/02/04 

Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 23:58:50 GMT

On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Dave Uhring wrote:

> dvipdfm(1)
>
> DESCRIPTION
> The program dvipdfm generates a PDF file from a DVI file.
> DVI files are the output format produced by TeX. Output
> from groff can be converted to DVI format using grodvi.

Alas, I only have dvipdf (which also goes through PostScript
conversion phase. Due to time constraints, I didn't have time,
nor the inclination, to mess about trying to find another way
of converting PostScript to PDF.

I think the latest version of Aladin GhostScript (8.somehting)
does the job, but the GPL version (7.something) doesn't. I
tried compiling Aladin GhostScript here, but (surprise surprise)
it didn't work out of the box. :-(

Apart from a bit of text misalignment, ps2pdf did a good job.
Just not acceptable for a professional looking book. I suspect
the latest (non-GPL) version of GhostScript will fix that. 

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Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, author of "Solaris Systems Programming",
published in August 2004.
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