ANN: alternate pdftops filter 1.10

Franz Pfoertsch franz.pfoertsch at brose.net
Fri Sep 29 05:38:12 PDT 2006


Thanks a lot for your work!

Is it normal that acroread.conf is empty?

regards
Franz


Helge Blischke wrote:

> The Perl script "alternate pdftops filter" has been enhanced to
> additionally support the Adobe reader (acroread) as the real filter
> program.
> 
> This has been done, as the xpdf based solution (mine as well as the
> official CUPS one) have difficulties converting certain variants of CID
> fonts.
> 
> Under certain precautions (see the embedded documentation within the
> script source) both variants (pdftops and acroread) can be supported in
> parallel, but one of them must be selected as the default, the other one
> then may be selected by a job attribute.
> 
> Enjoy.
> 
> Helge
> 





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