Re: flexfax: "Clear" Postscript Driver on Windows NT

[David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>]

> 
> You can try downloading Adobe PS Printer from http://www.adobe.com

I had a look at that in the hope that it generated less verbose Postscript
than Windows for the generation of PDF with ghostscript; in a sense it
does, but the resulting PDF would be no less verbose.

However, on reading the licence conditions, I would say it would
be illegal to use it with ghostscript except to print from Adobe
applications.  The wording of the licence is a bit confusing, but the most
sensible interpretation is that there must be some paid for Adobe software
involved in its use; either in the printer or in the source application.

> > 493 (T) 343 (h) 234 (i) 341 (s) 334 ( ) 123 (i) .... 343 (t)
> >

What the Adobe driver does is to re-arrange this into the equivalent
of:

(This i....t) [ 493 343 234 341 334 123 ....343 ]

but with smaller numbers, either because they use a different scale or
because they code the difference from the natural length of the
character.