[OS X TeX] (OT) converting old ps to pdf

[Gerben Wierda]

Have you tried PStill?

G

On Dec 21, 2006, at 22:24 , Victor Ivrii wrote:

> On 12/21/06, Bruno Voisin  wrote:
>
>>
>> Adobe Acrobat Professional?
>>
>> Better I don't know, but it provides a number of settings you may
>> want to play with, when producing a PDF file: whether included JPEG
>> files must be compressed, which resolution the output should be
>> optimized for, and so forth.
>
> Even if the default settings A8 Pro (actually Distiller) produced the
> perfect text layer.
> However it could not deal with
> http://www.math.toronto.edu/ivrii/Research/preprints/bad.pdf
>
> which was created by ps2pdf from bad.ps. In contrast to the examples
> without text layer this ps contained completely messed up text layer.
> Converting in to Postscript and then running Distiller did not heal
> it. OCR also could not be performed by Acrobat since it contained
> renderable text.
>
> Purely academic question: why some of ancients ps (produced by dvips)
> when converted to pdf have no text layer, while others have it
> completely messed up (which probably is even worse)?
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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