On Jun 1, 2005, at 2:57 PM, David Stevenson wrote:

> Apparently, the reasons many VFP developers do not use GhostScript

> have to

> do with either confusion about licensing requirements or

> difficulties in

> getting it easily and reliably installed without user intervention.

I was not aware of the alternative GPL and/or GNU distributions, and

had reviewed the Aladdin license and then purchased commercial

licenses. I do support a number of clients with PDF output options,

mostly using PDF995 and pdfFactory. For the expense involved, the

added benefits of the installer and printer driver technology were

worth the costs to my clients. However, I'll have to review LSN's

articles - a brief skim shows some brilliant ideas, as usual.

Of course, on my Mac, I can save anything to PDF. It's built in.

Linux, too, of course. It's too bad the Microsoft chooses to distance

itself so far behind the other systems...