[softwarelist] Re: pdf, ovation, risc oss

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          David Pilling <flist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>>My latest printer is a Postscript 3 device, and that seems to be the
>>norm now.
> 
> The point about "level 3" is that PostScript level 3 provides a very
> simple solution to many of the horrors in the current Acorn drivers -
> for example rendering sprites with a mask.
> 
> Even if you don't have a level 3 printer, you might want to generate
> better PDFs.

Speaking of PDF generation: I have just ported GhostScript 8.50 to 
RISC OS, which improves PDF generation based on !ps2pdf or PrintPDF 
quite a bit. For instance, in contrast to the current RISC OS port 
(version 7.03), GhostScript 8.50 no longer converts text in 
non-Publisher fonts (i.e., fonts without a Type-1 file, which appear 
as Type-3 fonts in the PostScript file) to bitmaps.

Of course, it cannot do better than its PostScript input files, so an 
improved PS driver would be really useful.

Martin
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