Re: [Groff] conversion to DOC format

[Roger Leigh]

"Robert Goulding" <address@hidden> writes:

>> > What I do is to create a PostScript (*.ps) formatted output and then use
>> >  ps2pdf(1)  to create a Portable Document Format (PDF) file.
>>
>> I also do this.  However, I noticed that it often messes up the
>> character spacing, particularly where ligatures or special characters
>> are concerned.  As an example, turn groff_char(7) into ps, and then to
>> pdf; you'll see the resultant PDF has many alignment problems :-(
>>
>> This is the case with groff 1.18.1 and ps2pdf/gs 7.07.1 (Debian).
>>
>
> This bug (as we've discussed before on this list) only appears in the
> ghostscript 7 series; it wasn't in (say) 6.53, and it's fixed in the latest
> ghostscript.

I wasn't aware of that.  That's very nice to know!


Thanks,
Roger

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