From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Jun 29 21:01:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA21560 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 21:01:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from softweyr.com ([204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA21549 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 21:01:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from obie.softweyr.com (zaphod.softweyr.com [204.68.178.35]) by softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA24744; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 22:01:08 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 22:01:08 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199806300401.WAA24744@softweyr.com> Subject: Re: pdf pain... From: Wes Peters To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, james@miller.cs.uwm.edu Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: Wes Peters In-Reply-To: <199806292216.RAA24298@miller.cs.uwm.edu> References: <199806292216.RAA24298@miller.cs.uwm.edu> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-Mailer: BeatWare Mail-It 1.6 (TrialWare) X-BeOS-Platform: Intel or clone Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id VAA21555 Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org My hidden microphone recorded Jim Lowe (james@miller.cs.uwm.edu) saying: % > From: Luigi Rizzo % > Subject: pdf pain... % > To: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG % > % > I am having a problem... people here are insisting that some % > documentation be made available in PDF (the previous format of choice % > was Word DOC format...) so i wonder if there is a solution to produce % > PDF from postscript without having to run Windows and/or having to buy % > the writer from adobe. % > % > The best i can come up with is getting some cheap pdf writer, run it % > under windows, and use "vnc" to access the machine from X. Any better % > idea ? % % I use /usr/ports/print/acroread, but I get the impression this is not % what you are looking for. % % Something like: acroread -toPostScipt < file.pdf >file.ps I think he's looking for something to convert from "other" formats to PDF. If you have one, it is available for Solaris, SunOS, HP-UX, and AIX. You could stick it on another machine somewhere and use it via X. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message