Re: Computist Project: finished.

[scott@alfter.DIESPAMMERSDIE.us (Scott Alfter)]

In article <1159405991.368908.62490@d34g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>,
Eric <englere_geo@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Scott Alfter wrote:
>
>> The PostScript files are then concatenated and converted to PDF with
>> Ghostscript:
>>
>> http://www.ghostscript.com/
>
>Thanks for the info. This ghostscript step looks like the hardest part
>of the process. Do you have to install ghostscript as a printer driver,
>and then print the .ps files to it? Or, can you use a commandline with
>a wildcard to specify a bunch of .ps files that can be converted into a
>single PDF all at once? 

The latter:

echo "" | gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=foo.pdf -dNOPAUSE -q - foo.ps bar.ps ...

That renders to letter-size by default; if you need legal, tabloid, or a
custom size, there are more options to control that.

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