RE: pdf file creation using Linux apps

2003-03-02 Thread James Miller
On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, Theo. Sean Schulze wrote: > If you don't mind using a command line tool, then you might want to save the documents as PostScript files and then use ps2pdf13 to convert to PDF format. I have been using ps2pdf13 for a little while now to convert man pages to pdf format, and I hav

RE: pdf file creation using Linux apps

2003-03-02 Thread Amin
On 1 Mar 2003 at 19:17, James Miller wrote: [snip] > easily upgrade the KOffice I have. Does anyone know of other apps that > create/convert to pdf that are largely compatible with Adobe Acrobat Reader? If you're willing to invest some time in learning LaTeX, you can use ``pdflatex'' to create

Re: pdf file creation using Linux apps

2003-03-01 Thread Theo. Sean Schulze
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 07:17:42PM -0600, James Miller hunted and pecked out: [snip] > I have several pdf reading progs on my machine, so my concern is not so > much with being able to read pdfs. It's more with creating them, and, > specifically, creating files compatible with Adobe Reader. Most pe

Re: pdf file creation using Linux apps

2003-03-01 Thread Brian Jackson
On Saturday 01 March 2003 07:17 pm, James Miller wrote: > On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Brian Jackson wrote: > > be about as close to stable as the rest of my system. (I've learned not > > to expect perfection unless I want to help make it that way) > > I guess I don't consider expecting an application not

RE: pdf file creation using Linux apps

2003-03-01 Thread James Miller
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Brian Jackson wrote: > be about as close to stable as the rest of my system. (I've learned not to > expect perfection unless I want to help make it that way) > I guess I don't consider expecting an application not to kill the Xserver just in the course of normal use "perfectio

Re: pdf file creation using Linux apps

2003-03-01 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, James Miller wrote: > > I have recently discovered the ability of certain Linux word processing > apps to create pdf files. What I'm referring to here is the print to > file feature, i.e. printing an OpenOffice or M$Word file to pdf. This is > really useful for my work, and c

Re: pdf file creation using Linux apps

2003-02-28 Thread Brian Jackson
I don't know if you can get ahold of a newer version of koffice, but I had the kind of stability problems with older versions. The newest version seems to be about as close to stable as the rest of my system. (I've learned not to expect perfection unless I want to help make it that way) --Brian

pdf file creation using Linux apps

2003-02-28 Thread James Miller
Greetings, all. I have recently discovered the ability of certain Linux word processing apps to create pdf files. What I'm referring to here is the print to file feature, i.e. printing an OpenOffice or M$Word file to pdf. This is really useful for my work, and could save me plenty over the competi