[OS X TeX] IEEE pdf checker

David Watson dewatson at mac.com
Wed Apr 9 10:52:00 EDT 2008


Here with MacTex, ps2pdf is not symlink, and it uses  
CompatibilityLevel=1.3

David
On Apr 9, 2008, at 9:42 AM, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> Le 9 avr. 08 à 16:34, Herbert Schulz a écrit :
>
>> I think simpdftex calls ps2pdf13 directly by default. On my system  
>> (Ghostscript via MacTeX, i.e., via iInstaller) ps2pdf is not a  
>> symlink, it is a script that, by default, calls ps2pdf14, not  
>> ps2pdf13.
>
> Here I'm confused: on my setup (GhostScript installed by i-Installer  
> first, when installing gwTeX, and then MacTeX/TeXLive-2007 installed  
> on top of it), ps2pdf is not a symlink as I thought but a file  
> identical to ps2pdf13 and containing:
>
> 	#!/bin/sh
> 	# $Id: ps2pdf13 6300 2005-12-28 19:56:24Z giles $
> 	# Convert PostScript to PDF 1.3 (Acrobat 4-and-later compatible).
>
> 	exec ps2pdfwr -dCompatibilityLevel=1.3 "$@"
>
> while ps2pdf14 contains:
>
> 	#!/bin/sh
> 	# $Id: ps2pdf14 6300 2005-12-28 19:56:24Z giles $
> 	# Convert PostScript to PDF 1.4 (Acrobat 5-and-later compatible).
>
> 	exec ps2pdfwr -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 "$@"
>
> Bruno Voisin



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