Jon -

I've used ghostscript quite a lot, and there are some great things you can do with it, but if you have to rip it back to another printer language you don't really get much improvement in the print quality over just printing direct from a notation program.

As an intermediate for producing a .pdf, a .ps file could be useful; but you can get there by just installing a PostScript print driver (readily available) and doing a "print to file," if your .pdf maker is one of those that needs a printfile (.ps) input. Of course, if the ghost suite is your .pdf maker, you might as well do it all there.

It would seem that the usefulness you find in the .ps relates more to what you can do with it (GUEST=GUEST,Jon?) when you wring in a SQL database and get pretty sophisticated with the ABC (a little beyond what W.E. seems to want.)

John