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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 24, 2004 07:39 AM
you don't need ps2pdf on mac os. everything on os x prints to pdf. every application, even carbon apps, can print to pdf. all you have to do is in print, hit preview, and viola, a pdf preview is created. then save the pdf. that's it. and by the way, ps2pdf is not a stand alone app. it is part of ghostscript which is a free cross platform suite of apps. very nice to.

as a side note, i showed off this feature on my linux laptop a couple of years ago in a college class. prof was very interested. i showed him how to set up a smaba/ftp server for his classes, and he could send all his files to it, and wrote a bash script to automate ps2pdf all the files. very cool.

but, on os x, everything is a pdf. it's built into the rendering engine.

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