Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 14:46:50 EST From: Andrea Venturoli <ml.ventu@flashnet.it> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: writing pdfs Message-ID: <200310101246.h9ACkoj5011765@soth.ventu>
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** Reply to note from "William O'Higgins" <william.ohiggins@utoronto.ca> 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 generating text in
> vi. PDF is eminently portable, and I think that it would suit my
> purposes nicely.
>
> 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
> excellent PDF-generation tools; should I write up a command-line
> interpreter myself? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> 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.
I use a virtual printer calling ghostscript to let my users output a pdf file from any program that can print. Any
postscript driver should work.
Basically they prin from their favourite program to a samba shared printer which outputs a pdf file in their home dir.
Some kinks but it does its job.
If you are a local user you will not need samba, but the principle can be almost the same: practically everything can
output postscript.
bye
av.
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