From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 10 06:20:57 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 4065E16A4B3 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 06:20:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [12.15.124.245]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ECC743F85 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 06:20:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from openbsd.cbag.local (unknown [12.15.124.131]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4F11E2; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 08:20:47 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris To: William O'Higgins , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 08:22:00 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <20031010123141.GA1925@sillyrabbi.dyndns.org> <200310100814.29227.racerx@makeworld.com> In-Reply-To: <200310100814.29227.racerx@makeworld.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310100822.00281.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 13:20:57 -0000 On Friday 10 October 2003 08:14 am, Chris wrote: > 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 As a follow up, I agree, I have not gotten OOo to install however, the openoffice-devel went smoothly for me. -- 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