**cough** $convert imagemagick
$convert somefile.whatever somefile.pdf --- On 18 January 2018 at 09:04, <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 06:21:31PM +0000, Brian wrote: > > On Wed 10 Jan 2018 at 21:01:13 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [...] > > > > Thanks for actually trying out. I stand corrected... > > > > A gracious response. However, my data were in the context of using a2ps > > to go from text to PS. Your "hefty PDFs" would be entirely correct if > > paps had been used for the conversion. The result is a 156551 sized file > > for me. gs2pdf comes up with a whopping 11540827 and takes 18 s to do so. > > Heh. I've been called all sort of names, but gracious... :-) > > > That was in 2015, Debian's paps does not relect the existence of a > > 7.0 version. I wonder why? > > Yes, that might be the root of my dim memories. > > Thanks for your thorough investigation > > cheers > - -- tomás > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAlpfrDMACgkQBcgs9XrR2kYFGACeL5J7MFpQSDa3F96kHNjq6D7H > DFMAn0w5jLhnXV492+EJQeORz3LhQqoX > =t1V6 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >