On Fri, Oct 06, 2017, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote: > > > This discussion makes me wonder what the 3000-line perl > > script, grofpdf, can do that a trivial shell script that > > calls groff and ps2pdf can't. > > Embedding of PDF figures, I guess. Also, in a very general > sense, things like generating an outline.
The second sentence, above, trivializes a huge advantage of gropdf. As a developer, I might tend to agree with "Of course, the best solution would be for everybody to stop using PDF and start using Postscript instead." but as a frequent writer and reader of PDF documents, I would disagree. -- Peter Schaffter http://www.schaffter.ca
