Re: Greeting card revisited: PS and PDF discrepancies

[Oliver Corff]

Hi Damian,

you are correct --- the Postscript output looks fine (and beautiful). It
is only with the -Tpdf option that the black PDF file appears.

Oliver.


On 23/01/2021 21:56, Damian McGuckin wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Jan 2021, Oliver Corff wrote:
>
> > When I execute the code (trailing spaces removed), I get a nice display
> > in PostScript, but the PDF output is a mere black shadow.
> >
> > Is this the way it is supposed to be or a bug?
>
> I have to admit that I have only ever produced Postscript from groff
> (and troff before that) and then displayed that Postscript directly,
> sent that same Postscript to the printer, or converted that Postscript
> to PDF with something else. 30+ year old habits die hard.
>
> That approach to your Postscript output produces no black shadow.
>
> Regards - Damian
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