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   Lawrence D'Oliveiro to Marion   
   Re: What is the best free software for c   
   04 Mar 25 03:13:01   
   
   XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, comp.text.pdf, alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 02:35:38 -0000 (UTC), Marion wrote:   
      
   > Different from both Inkscape (vector) & ImageMagick (raster) is   
   > Ghostscript, which can rasterize PDFs ...   
      
   Yes. It is essentially a full-function PostScript interpreter, it just has   
   lots of options for the output format. Rasterizing PDF was probably a   
   relatively minor function to add on top of that.   
      
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