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Problem creating PS files after running ArcaOS Package Manager Update

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Dariusz Piatkowski:

--- Quote from: ivan on June 24, 2022, 07:46:47 pm ---Maybe I'm getting slow in my old age but I wonder why you are doing a two step operation to get a PDF file - why not go directly to the PDF?

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I think Martin is saying that on one of the two systems he has BOTH generating a PS as well as PDF file results in much larger file sizes.

ivan:
Maybe, I read it as he produces PS files which he then converts to PDF using ghostscript hence my asking about why use a two part process rather than going direct to PDF.

Alfredo Fernández Díaz:

--- Quote from: ivan on June 25, 2022, 03:37:43 am ---why use a two part process rather than going direct to PDF.
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There may be reasons for this as well, for example adding "pdfmark" information (links and hyperlinks, table of contents entries aka bookmarks, etc.) that an application won't generate by itself. You create the PS file, add the pdfmarks to it or an additional file, and convert the whole thing to PDF with GS. I do this all the time with WordPerfect for DOS.

ivan:
All of that can be done to a PDF file by using jPDFtweak - a java application.

Martin Vieregg:
Sorry for the wrong track... I now realized that the problems refer to the choice of the default printer which I changed at the same day when running the updates. But it is a bit strange, because both printers are PS printers.
To easy handle updates, I have copied the whole system partition to a backup directory while running another OS/2 installation with XCOPY * X: /H /O /T /S /E /R /V.  So I can simply restore old stable working states of my main system. From SSD to SSD, it takes less than 2 minutes... That is much faster and more secure than running the downgrade functionality of Package Manager.

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