Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 08:14:29 -0500 From: Chris <racerx@makeworld.com> To: William O'Higgins <william.ohiggins@utoronto.ca>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: writing pdfs Message-ID: <200310100814.29227.racerx@makeworld.com> In-Reply-To: <20031010123141.GA1925@sillyrabbi.dyndns.org> References: <20031010123141.GA1925@sillyrabbi.dyndns.org>
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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 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.
>
> Thanks.
OppenOffice.Org (/usr/ports/editors/openoffice &
/usr/ports/editors/openoffice-devel)
Is a suite that gets you as close to the MS Office package as can be. In
addition, you CAN create PDF's
Just my 2 pennies
--
Best regards,
Chris
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