There's an excellent latex2e introduction from Tobias Oettiker which can
be downloaded from http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/lshort/ (filename:
lshort.pdf).
I second that. An older version of lshort is included with the teTeX
distribution, but since the document is actively maintained,
You can use pdftops(1) from the xpdf Port wich seems to make a very
correct PostScript output. For me, the pdf2ps(1) from Ghostscript make
a very, very ugly PostScript document.
In me experience, acroread is the best option to convert pdf to ps
(either be printing to a file or with acroread's
I have grown tired of using MS Word as my standard document output
format. I haven't gotten OpenOffice to work under FreeBSD (and it isn't
my favourite tool by a long shot) and I am most happy generating text in
vi. PDF is eminently portable, and I think that it would suit my
purposes nicely.
I
** Reply to note from William O'Higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri, 10 Oct 2003
08:31:41 -0400
I have grown tired of using MS Word as my standard document output
format. I haven't gotten OpenOffice to work under FreeBSD (and it isn't
my favourite tool by a long shot) and I am most happy
* William O'Higgins:
I did a bit of searching, but I didn't find any real *advice* on what
process to use, and most of the tools that I found are for viewing
PDFs, not writing them.
Have a look at DocBook. You will need FreeBSD packages docbook-xml (the
DTD), docbook-xsl (stylesheets
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 08:31:41AM -0400, William O'Higgins wrote:
I have grown tired of using MS Word as my standard document output
format. I haven't gotten OpenOffice to work under FreeBSD (and it isn't
my favourite tool by a long shot) and I am most happy generating text in
vi. PDF is
On Friday 10 October 2003 07:31 am, William O'Higgins wrote:
I have grown tired of using MS Word as my standard document output
format. I haven't gotten OpenOffice to work under FreeBSD (and it isn't
my favourite tool by a long shot) and I am most happy generating text in
vi. PDF is
At 08:31 10.10.2003 -0400, William O'Higgins wrote:
I have grown tired of using MS Word as my standard document output
format. I haven't gotten OpenOffice to work under FreeBSD (and it isn't
my favourite tool by a long shot) and I am most happy generating text in
vi. PDF is eminently portable,
On Friday 10 October 2003 08:14 am, Chris wrote:
On Friday 10 October 2003 07:31 am, William O'Higgins wrote:
I have grown tired of using MS Word as my standard document output
format. I haven't gotten OpenOffice to work under FreeBSD (and it isn't
my favourite tool by a long shot) and I
You have quite a few options:
1. HTMLDOC - will convert most HTML documents to PDF very quickly (I use
this in production to generate several thousand files a month)
2. Openoffice 1.1 - has an Export to PDF option. (the most recent port
works)
3. Anything that prints using Gnome's Gnome-print or
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 03:06:23PM +0200, Alexander Haderer wrote:
My opinion: yes. Learn the basics of LaTeX and use pdflatex instead of
latex to create pdf files directly from your tex source. The old way of
generating pdf via tex-dvi-ps-pdf via the classic (la)tex commands has
the
At 07:59 10.10.2003 -0600, Tillman Hodgson wrote:
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 03:06:23PM +0200, Alexander Haderer wrote:
My opinion: yes. Learn the basics of LaTeX and use pdflatex instead of
latex to create pdf files directly from your tex source. The old way of
generating pdf via tex-dvi-ps-pdf
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 04:18:38PM +0200, Alexander Haderer wrote:
I agree with the recommendation to learn LaTeX. It's probably the best
way to generate PDF output and it's widely used for document generation.
I disagree that one needs to use pdflatex, though. Those side-effects
you mention
Thanks to all who, very quickly, gave recommendations, hints, references
and ports locations. An excellent response. I'm going to look into
DocBook and LaTex and see where that takes me.
Thanks also to those who offered help with OpenOffice, but I have come
to *profoundly* dislike Word and all
Right, but in return you gave up nice generation of exactly equivalent
PS files. I have a PS printer - I put PDF on the web and cat PS to the
printer :-)
You can use pdftops(1) from the xpdf Port wich seems to make a very
correct PostScript output. For me, the pdf2ps(1) from Ghostscript make
a
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 07:59:10AM -0600, Tillman Hodgson wrote:
1. \usepackage{times} (or palatino or bookman or whatever font
package you like)
2. use something like this in your Makefile:
ps:
latex some_latex_file.tex
latex
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
wrote Alexander Haderer thusly...
At 07:59 10.10.2003 -0600, Tillman Hodgson wrote:
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 03:06:23PM +0200, Alexander Haderer wrote:
The old way of generating pdf via tex-dvi-ps-pdf via the
classic (la)tex commands has the disadvantage that
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I had some thoughts about generating PDFs, but I was hoping for advice
about which tools to use. Should I just learn how to mark up a text
page manually (I write HTML almost as quickly as plain text)? Should I
learn TeX or some variant and translate it? I hear that PHP has some
The only thing I would add to the excellent replies is that
no one seems to have mentioned the dvipdfm utility,
part of the teTeX package, which generates pdf
directly from your .dvi file; no need to convert
ps to pdf.
Because pdflatex(1) can output PDF directly from the same LaTeX
source
On Friday, 10 October 2003 at 8:31:41 -0400, William O'Higgins wrote:
I have grown tired of using MS Word as my standard document output
format. I haven't gotten OpenOffice to work under FreeBSD (and it isn't
my favourite tool by a long shot) and I am most happy generating text in
vi. PDF
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