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  From: Adam Hawes <adam@overfiend.ace.net.au>
  To  : Linux SA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 22:22:57 +0930

Ghostscript and PDF output

Hey all,

I have an interesting question and I am too lazy to read the docs
because someone else must have seen this!

I print (using Staroffice) to a postscript (level 1 or level 2, it
doesn't matter) file.  I then convert the file using gs to a pdf.

I use:
'gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=body.pdf title.ps'

to do the conversion.  I would expect that gs would go off and do this
automagically and return to the command line when it is done, or stop on
error. the problem is I see the following:

<snip gs output>
Loading NimbusSanL-Bold font from
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n019004l.pfb... 1986232 591605 1409536
98527 1 done.
Loading NimbusRomNo9L-Regu font from
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n021003l.pfb... 2046508 646157 1469812
156641 1 done.
>>showpage, press <return> to continue<<
Loading NimbusSanL-Bold font from
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n019004l.pfb... 1986232 591413 1409536
110623 1 done.
Loading NimbusRomNo9L-Regu font from
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n021003l.pfb... 2046508 645965 1509996
204086 1 done.
Loading NimbusRomNo9L-ReguItal font from
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n021023l.pfb... 2086692 696973 1550180
230130 1 done.
>>showpage, press <return> to continue<<
</snip gs output>

I have to press return quite a large number of times during the course
of a large document conversion and it is annoying.  Does anyone know
what this message is?  I think that it looks like gs is loading fonts,
but why would it prompt for the enter key?

Is there any simple way to stop it asking for the enter key???

Cheers,
Adam

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