Hi,

I am working on a project for my academics. I wanted to know about the
details about how to convert the post script files to PDF format. I am
using C#.Net as my platform for the project. As i said i am a student
and cannot afford for the third party tools which does the conversion.
It would be very helpful if u could provide some code snippets for
this.

Thank You

Govardhan

> I am working on a project for my academics. I wanted to know about the
> details about how to convert the post script files to PDF format. I am
> using C#.Net as my platform for the project. As i said i am a student
> and cannot afford for the third party tools which does the conversion.
> It would be very helpful if u could provide some code snippets for
> this.

Are you seriously considering writing a PostScript interpreter similar to
Distiller, one to make PDFs as well? How many years have you got for each
project? ;-)

Or do you simply need a way to make PDFs from PostScript? In that case, google
GhostScript ... it's very capable and it's freely available.

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Hi,

i am seriously looking forward for the interpreter. I wanted to know
whether there is any component that is compitable with .Net and make my
task easier. I cann't afford to buy any third party tools because i am
doing it for my academic project.

Regards,
Govardhan

> i am seriously looking forward for the interpreter. I wanted to know
> whether there is any component that is compitable with .Net and make my
> task easier. I cann't afford to buy any third party tools because i am
> doing it for my academic project.

Look into GhostScript. You'll have to work out whether it's .Net compatible or
not, but it's a solid performer.

The licensing might be complex for commercial applications but for an academic
project, I think you'd be able to use it at no charge. Read the licensing
carefully though.



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Thanks Steve for responsing.

I tried it out its not compatible with .Net. Can u suggest me any other
tools. Do u know any library in java which does this type of conversion
and is compatible with .Net. I asked u this because there are many
libraries in java which are compatible with .Net

Thank You

Govardhan

"apondu" <apondu@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks Steve for responsing.
>
> I tried it out its not compatible with .Net. Can u suggest me any other
> tools. Do u know any library in java which does this type of conversion
> and is compatible with .Net. I asked u this because there are many
> libraries in java which are compatible with .Net

You can make Ghostscript compatible to a certain extent, if only by shelling
out to the executable with the appropriate command-line parameters.

What do you want to achieve beyond the conversion of a Postscript file to a
PDF?


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In article <1141213624.810292.96060@z34g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>, Apondu
wrote:
> Thanks Steve for responsing.
>
> I tried it out its not compatible with .Net. Can u suggest me any other
> tools. Do u know any library in java which does this type of conversion
> and is compatible with .Net. I asked u this because there are many
> libraries in java which are compatible with .Net

I'm afraid I can't be of any help there.
Try searching at www.planetpdf.com though.


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