[pstricks] b5 paper problems

Herbert Voss LaTeX at zedat.fu-berlin.de
Wed Dec 7 20:55:24 CET 2005


Pedro Jorge Caridade wrote:

> I wanted to ask something for sometime and the script that you prepare
> give me the opportunity. When you use ps2pdf, I think that you are using
> the one from ghostscript (both windows and unix, gnu or alladin). This
> ps2pdf uses version 1.2 of adobe-PDF, and usually it haves a lot of pdf
> limitations. Since standard ghostcript have higher versions of ps2pdf,
> usually I advice people around here /we use only linux) to use ps2pdf14
> (Acrobat 5.0). For example, in your page dedicated to pictures and
> hyperref: http://tug.org/PSTricks/main.cgi?file=Examples/misc#hyperref
> you mention the need of using pst-pdf to get "a working PDF file". If
> you use ps2pdf14 the example runs smoothly without the pst-pdf. 

sure, but the script ps4pdf uses at last run pdflatex and
not ps2pdf. This is the reason why this example needs
pst-pdf, just like all others where you build your pdf
with pdflatex.

Herbert




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