Anyone know where to find a technical definition of PDF? I need to convert
a text file to ps and then to pdf. Text to ps is simple and complete. The ps
to PDF format is the current trouble. Or maybe text to PDF directly. There is no need for compression, so, if that can be omitted it would good.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Hul

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Anyone know where to find a technical definition of PDF?

The PDF Reference Manual is the techincal definition of PDF. Its now an
ISO specification which costs (IIRC) 250 CHF, however the 1.7 version
was published fro free by Adobe and is still available from their web
site. You'll have to Google for it, they move it around frequently.

Unless you need the absolute newset features (which seems unlikely) the
free version is quite adequate from a technical perspective, easier to
read and more useful (for example it has an index, which the ISO
specification lacks)

I need to convert
a text file to ps and then to pdf. Text to ps is simple and complete. The ps to PDF format is the current trouble. Or maybe text to PDF directly. There is no need for compression, so, if that can be omitted it would good.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Use Ghostscript ?

Ken

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On 09/27/2020 04:59 PM, Hul Tytus wrote:

Anyone know where to find a technical definition of PDF? I need to convert
a text file to ps and then to pdf. Text to ps is simple and complete. The ps to PDF format is the current trouble. Or maybe text to PDF directly. There is no need for compression, so, if that can be omitted it would good.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Hul

Ghostscript will work if you can accept the speed.

If you know Java then Apache PDFBox at https://pdfbox.apache.org/ will
produce PDFs much faster.

Jeff Coffield
www.digitalsynergyinc.com

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Ken - google found the version 1.7 manual. Thanks again.

Hul

ken <ken@spamcop.net> wrote:

In article <rkr916$b8j$1@reader1.panix.com>, ht@panix.com says...

Anyone know where to find a technical definition of PDF?

The PDF Reference Manual is the techincal definition of PDF. Its now an
ISO specification which costs (IIRC) 250 CHF, however the 1.7 version
was published fro free by Adobe and is still available from their web
site. You'll have to Google for it, they move it around frequently.

Unless you need the absolute newset features (which seems unlikely) the
free version is quite adequate from a technical perspective, easier to
read and more useful (for example it has an index, which the ISO specification lacks)

I need to convert
a text file to ps and then to pdf. Text to ps is simple and complete. The ps
to PDF format is the current trouble. Or maybe text to PDF directly. There is
no need for compression, so, if that can be omitted it would good.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Use Ghostscript ?

Ken

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Thanks Ken. The 1.7 version should be plenty. The hope is to make the
text to pdf code as small as possible; Ghostscript's not a giant but close.

Hul


Ken <ken@spamcop.net> wrote:

In article <rkr916$b8j$1@reader1.panix.com>, ht@panix.com says...

Anyone know where to find a technical definition of PDF?

The PDF Reference Manual is the techincal definition of PDF. Its now an
ISO specification which costs (IIRC) 250 CHF, however the 1.7 version
was published fro free by Adobe and is still available from their web
site. You'll have to Google for it, they move it around frequently.

Unless you need the absolute newset features (which seems unlikely) the
free version is quite adequate from a technical perspective, easier to
read and more useful (for example it has an index, which the ISO specification lacks)

I need to convert
a text file to ps and then to pdf. Text to ps is simple and complete. The ps
to PDF format is the current trouble. Or maybe text to PDF directly. There is
no need for compression, so, if that can be omitted it would good.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Use Ghostscript ?

Ken

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Thanks for the suggestions. The Java version might be ok for a
translation to c.

Hul

Jeffrey H. Coffield <jeffrey@digitalsynergyinc.com> wrote:

On 09/27/2020 04:59 PM, Hul Tytus wrote:

Anyone know where to find a technical definition of PDF? I need to convert
a text file to ps and then to pdf. Text to ps is simple and complete. The ps
to PDF format is the current trouble. Or maybe text to PDF directly. There is
no need for compression, so, if that can be omitted it would good.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Hul

Ghostscript will work if you can accept the speed.

If you know Java then Apache PDFBox at https://pdfbox.apache.org/ will produce PDFs much faster.

Jeff Coffield
www.digitalsynergyinc.com

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This will do txt2pdf using ghostscript as explained in gslp.ps:

gs -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sPAPERSIZE=letter --permit-file-read="$1" -dNOPAUSE -sOutputFile=$1.pdf -sPROGNAME=$0 -- gslp.ps --heading-center "`date`" "$1"

I use these to avoid compression just not sure if this works for pdfwrite or just ps2write:

-dCompressPages=false -dCompressStreams=false

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