From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 20 5:50:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-94-248-46.mmcable.com [24.94.248.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3B15837B41A for ; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 05:50:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 63960 invoked by uid 100); 20 Sep 2001 12:50:08 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15273.58880.600764.99350@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 07:50:08 -0500 To: Chris Aitken Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PDF creation in Star Office In-Reply-To: <27113691@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris Aitken types: > Just a quick question. Someone mentioned to me today that they thought Star > Office had the ability to create PDF files. I was under the impression that > it can only read them but not write them. Can anyone else shed some light > on this, or even have any other suggestions on how to create PDF files > under a unix enviro that would be great. I don't know if star office supports it directly, but it can create PS files. You can then feed those to ps2pdf to generate pdf files. ps2pdf is part of the ghostscript port. If you can get StarOffice to let you imbed literal postscript into the output postscript, there are some other cool things you can do as well. My favorite tool for creating PDF was FrameMaker, but that is no longer available on any x86 Unix platform :-(. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message