On Wednesday 31 August 2005 11:44 pm, Asif Lodhi wrote: > Hi Scribus Developers, > > I know there are tools out there that convert various formats to PDF - > I know of text2PDF, at least. I am positive there are more out there. > The question is: do these tools produce press-ready PDFs through > xpdflib or whatever? Alternatively, does linux's built-in pdf library > xpdflib (or something similar - I can't recall the correct name - > sorry!) support such Press-ready conversion? > > I might get into some automatic content-2-PressReadyPDF related work > or development if there are no such quality tools available on Linux. > Would you guys give me relevant pointers, URLs? I would be genuinely > grateful. > > I would be really thankful if Craig, both of you, could help me in this > respect. -- > Thanks and best regards > > Asif Lodhi > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus
What would be the purpose of such a tool? The program enscript will take a text file and print it out on a PostScript printer. Or it could output a PostScript file or rtf file or whatever. There are multiple formatting options within enscript. Once you have a Postscript file you can convert that to pdf with the Ghostscript tool ps2pdf. But for any useful output you need formatting by e.g., Scribus or TeX or whatever. -- John Culleton Books with answers to marketing and publishing questions: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf Book coaches, consultants and packagers: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf
