[pdftex] pdftex

[Hans Hagen]

Purnendu Chakraborty wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  Is there any special reason for not including Postscript
> interpreter in pdftex?
>
>   
lack of time, resources, motivation, need ... 

adding a ps interpreter would make pdftex huge, harder to maintain, slow  (it makes more sense to convert outside pdftex) ... the pdf is a descriptive format, ps is a language and needs an interpreter 

Hans 

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