Jean-Pierre Coulon <cou...@obs-nice.fr> wrote: > Both the MiKTeX and Ghostscript distributions contains a ps2pdf.bat > file. I have both packages installed. If I type ps2pdf -h it seems > that of MiKTeX is called. > > What will happen if I don't have Ghostscript installed? Does the > MiKTeX distribution need Ghostscript for the ps2pdf job, for the fonts > or the like?
ps2pdf is a wrapper script for ghostscript, so you definitely need it (gs, that is). sometimes, tex output uses fonts that gs provides, but it shouldn't be necessary in a modern tex distribution (all of which provide themeans to embed the gs fonts directly in the postscript output). robin _______________________________________________ tex-mu...@icking-music-archive.org mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://mailman.nfit.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/icking-music-archive.org-tex-music
