From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 10 06:13:29 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2836016A4B3 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 06:13:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [12.15.124.245]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3814D43FEC for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 06:13:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from openbsd.cbag.local (unknown [12.15.124.131]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 817B0E2; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 08:13:17 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris To: William O'Higgins , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 08:14:29 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <20031010123141.GA1925@sillyrabbi.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20031010123141.GA1925@sillyrabbi.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310100814.29227.racerx@makeworld.com> Subject: Re: writing pdfs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 13:13:29 -0000 X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 13:13:29 -0000 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 ______________________________________________________________________ PGP Fingerprint = D976 2575 D0B4 E4B0 45CC AA09 0F93 FF80 C01B C363 PGP Mail encouraged / preferred - keys available on common key servers ______________________________________________________________________ 01010010011000010110001101100101011100100101100000000000