> > The only reason why I assume there might be a license is because acrobat
> > costs so much?
>
> :-) Well, yes... there *are* licenses for Adobe's "Acrobat" *product*, as
> well as their "Distiller" product. But as far as I can tell, the
"Acrobat"
> *format* is free, and anyone can generate PDF files using other tools. I
> have sent off the question to a list of people who should know
(docbook-apps),
> so I'll let you know.
>
> > Yet there are no 'freeware' or opensource windows PDF makers.
That is what I thought.
> Sure there are. A search on Freshmeat for "PDF" generates all sorts of
> entries:
>
> http://freshmeat.net/search/?site=Freshmeat&q=PDF
Ok.. caught out again. Being lazy - still relying on very old knowledge.
:)
> Many of the ones I see are Java-based, which means they could be used on a
> Windows box just as well as on Linux. I don't know if they have a nice
> Windows GUI, but I know they will work on Windows. One that I know many
> people use is 'htmldoc':
>
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/htmldoc/
>
> In fact, the folks over at the Linux Documentation Project use that tool
to
> generate PDFs from their HTML. (And the HTML pages were actually
generated
> from DocBook SGML or XML using DocBook processing tools. The resulting
HTML
> pages are then converted to PDF using htmldoc.)
>
> As Des mentioned, there is also Ghostscript.
Last time I used ghost script was with latex at uni.... urghhh........ But
it did work nicely in the end. And print real prurdy as well.
> > So if the
> > whole open source community is making PDF's for free? Why? If the
standard
> > was open - why is acrobat the only expensive option for the windows
desktop?
>
> It is not the only option. See above. I do not know what other
commercial
> apps are out there for Windows, but there may be some.
This does help. I am writing so much now and the ability to just "lock" a
document down when I am done with it so..so.... , so idiots who run
businesses for printing and publishing (no names mentioned but take a wild
franchise guess) here in Australia have every printer setup to Letter or
legal as default and not A4 even though the entire Australian universe has
only ever used A4 for as long as we have been able to chop down trees.
Or who have funny word installs and what not... or their word likes to
change all my margins and put the top of paragraphs on the bottom of the
previous page and make embedded objects go cuckoo, all while not having the
'Arial' font installed............arrghhh!
Relax Richard. Breath......
Yes. So my enquiry was two fold. Something for me (and my aneurisms) and
something for our ECMS to do server side generations. :)
I have only just started using Sourceforge with great excitement and
results. I must actually go to freshmeat instead of just thinking of
hamburgers or a bad motor cycle accident for a change.
Cheers,
Richard.
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