Postscript

Posted by Linknoid on 2010-01-23 20:44:18

World-readable

At my last job, I didn't have enough to do, and I hated the Microsoft Word based traffic diagram template (like 300K per page, which quickly filled up mail quotas), so I recreated the diagram template using perl to generate postscript, and then ps2pdf to convert that to a PDF. Output file was 5K instead of 300K, the layout was more flexible (it could handle anywhere from 2 way to 8 way intersections), I could manipulate the diagram using a text file as input instead of having to painfully manipulate individual text fields in Word. The downside was, I was the only person who knew how to use it, so I doubt anyone is benefiting from it now. I even went so far as to reproduce the old bitmap letterhead in vector format. Waaaay too much free time on my hands there.

So seeing that brings back memories. Do you run it through any conversion first, or do you just raw dump it to a printer?