Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 10:48:41 +0100 From: "Petr Holub" <hopet@ics.muni.cz> To: "Murray Stokely" <murray.stokely@windriver.com> Cc: <freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: bad formating of PS/PDF version of Handbook Message-ID: <000601c162ba$63356f90$2c03fb93@evenstar> In-Reply-To: <20011031103137.J1818@windriver.com>
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O.K. - I'm aware of other solutions (like using Destiller). But
my notification was intended for people from Documentation
project just because not everybody has bought Destiller
and ordinary users shoud be able to create PDF by themselves
(or there should be some correct pregenerated version
downloadable for them somewhere on the web/ftp).
As fas as I remeber there was some correctly pregenerated
handbook downloadable yet about half a year ago.
Petr
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Petr Holub
CESNET z.s.p.o. Supercomputing Center Brno
Zikova 2 Institute of Compt. Science
10200 Praha, CZ Masaryk University
Czech Republic Botanicka 68a, 60200 Brno, CZ
e-mail: Petr.Holub@cesnet.cz phone: +420-5-41512278
e-mail: hopet@ics.muni.cz
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Murray Stokely [mailto:murray.stokely@windriver.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 7:32 PM
> To: Petr Holub
> Cc: Murray Stokely; freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org
> Subject: Re: bad formating of PS/PDF version of Handbook
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 05:56:38PM +0100, Petr Holub wrote:
> > > How does the PostScript version look with something like gv before
> > > being put through ps2pdf? I saw ps2pdf chop off a very tiny bit from
> > > the top of my PostScript files during conversions.
> >
> > PS seems to be O.K. Conversion is not about chopping off a tiny
> > bit - it's about chopping off quite a large bit. Header of pages with
> > chapter name almosy vanishes from the paper.
>
> Well here are the solutions I can think of ;)
>
> #1. Use PostScript instead of PDF.
>
> #2. Try other PS->PDF programs.
>
> #3. Try generating PDF directly, without going through PostScript.
> To accomplish this you will have to be fairly comfortable with
> TeX -- this is currently disabled since we are exceeding PDFTeX
> capacities.
>
> - Murray
>
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