On 23/10/17 22:16, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Bear in mind that Postscript is a DOCUMENT description language, while PDF is a PAGE description language. PDF requires much less working memory, and if something goes wrong it is also a lot easier to find the problem. Oh.
I understand that it is easy to translate between ps and pdf, they are related.
Yes, they are very similar. But PS stores a lot of information at the document level, whereas in PDF that information is repeated for every page. You can cut a page out of a PDF and print it no problem. Do that for PS and it may work, or it may fail spectacularly - special stuff like fonts, stylesheets, etc etc is stored at the start of the PS document and gets lost if you try to cut a page. That said, my experience of writing a program to chuck documents out of a database said programming PS was *much* easier, if you didn't try to be clever ... Cheers, Wol -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org