Sorry for the late reply - I have just been doing the same research for
myself.
The best txt to pdf converter (COMMAND LINE) I have found is @
www.metaformixis.com\tools\tools.html call
txt2pdf @ it works great and is 100% free. Plus:You can set margins, font
size, and various other options.
Go
GOTOwww.tudogs.com and in the search type in office.
Regards
Bjorn
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The problem with software995 (and others) is the lack of control for paging
and fonts sizing -- I have docs that work perfectly going to PCL, landscape,
line printer font, but none of the 'free' pdf creators will honor the
spacing required, or give you a way to really accurately control it. The
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From: David Wolverton
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So - if it's formatted for use via PCL, you may or may not get
what you want
- we ended up with 'line creep' on most all of the 'free' pdf
products - or
with the rightmost data cut off on really wide/full page
utilized items!
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I've always made sure that Ghostscript received only raw text. When I needed
to spiff it up a bit, I used the lead sheets feature of Ghostscript and
inserted some postscript code for things like watermarks header fonts.
I too have found that PCL will often not play nice with other printing
David really hit it on the head here. Because this is really a big FAQ, a
couple months ago I took a lot of time to research Windows and Linux
solutions for creating PDFs, particularly from MV. I was very surprised
and disappointed to find a triangle of mutually exclusive usage factors:
Ease of
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From: Tony Gravagno
Subject: RE: [U2] free txt-to-pdf converter
My latest adventure into this area has been to send complex HTML 4.0 with
nice formatting, fonts,
etc into MS Word. Using
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Does anyone know of a FREE txt-to-pdf converter that can be
run from a command
line?
I'm wanting to convert files in the PH to a PDF format.
(Running UniVerse 10 on Windows)
I do it in Java with iText. It's free (and open source) but you'd have
to write a short
I've used ghostscript for this and though large, it works very well. I built a
little printer script that calls the ghostscript routines to produce the pdf
file and then copy it to a web directory that can be browsed by the users.
There are numerous free and for fee methods of doing this.
Simon Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:: Does anyone know of a FREE txt-to-pdf converter that can be run
:: from a command line?
:: I'm wanting to convert files in the PH to a PDF format.
:: (Running UniVerse 10 on Windows)
www.software995.com and its related sites www.omniformat.com and
Goo'day, Simon,
Have a look at PrimoPDF (www.primopdf.com) This sets up as a printer
under any 32bit Windows
At 15:47 04/01/05 +1100, you wrote:
Does anyone know of a FREE txt-to-pdf converter that can be run from a command
line?
I'm wanting to convert files in the PH to a PDF format.
We use ghostscript, but it's a lot to install if all you want is
text-to-PDF, so try:
http://www.eprg.org/pdfcorner/text2pdf/
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