[scribus] compress-newsletter program.

[Gregory Pittman]

Fritz Eichelhardt wrote:
> hi all,
>
>   
>> From: John Culleton <john at wexfordpress.com>
>> Subject: [scribus] compress-newsletter program.
>>     
>
>   
>> This utility is described as follows:
>> # Name:   compress-newsletter
>> # Author: wd (Wolfgang.Dobler at ucalgary.ca)
>> # Date:   03-Oct-2005
>> # Description:
>> #   Use ghostscript's pdfwrite device (? la ps2pdf) to reduce the
>> #   Newsletter's PDF file size, and add meta information like author,
>> #   date, etc.
>> #   The preferred route is currently:
>> #                 [scribus>=1.2.3]
>> #                        |
>> #                    file.pdf
>> #                        |
>> #                 [pdftops>=3.00]
>> #                        |
>> #                     file.ps
>> #                        |
>> #            [pstopdf14 (gs-gnu-8.16 or higher)]
>> #                        |
>> #                        V
>> #                    final.pdf
>>     
>
> wherever and for whatever i (opensuse-linux 10.3) look:
>
> i can't find pstopdf/ps2pdf/gs-gnu*
>
> can you help?
>   
Look for psutils for your distro -- this has these. gs-gnu is simply 
your ghostscript, which you surely already have.

Greg