Conversion Tools

M.A · Post by **M.A** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 6:52 pm

I have in my PC both Ghostscript 8.64 and Adobe Acrobat 8.1.

My question is: which one of them is better for converting ps to pdf ?

I noticed that pdf file size for ghostscript is smaller than the acrobat and I didn't notice any differences in the font embedding list.
I read somewhere that acrobat has better quality, but I didn't notice that,
Any other comparisons ?

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Post by **localghost** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 7:10 pm

I think the answer lies in your descriptions. And it is the most uncomplicated method to get a PDF from a PS file. Most LaTeX IDEs support this conversion. It is astonishing that the Adobe products don't yield the best results regarding their own format.

Best regards
Thorsten

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