From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Jul 12 6:30:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 953B637B403 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 06:30:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Rahul.Siddharthan@lpt.ens.fr) Received: from corto.lpt.ens.fr (corto.lpt.ens.fr [129.199.122.2]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id f6CDU2m51545 ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 15:30:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: from (rsidd@localhost) by corto.lpt.ens.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.1) id PAA57684 ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 15:30:00 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 15:30:00 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Linh Pham Cc: Murray Stokely , Chern Lee , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ASCII Diagram Replacements Message-ID: <20010712153000.O42931@lpt.ens.fr> References: <20010712111730.H42931@lpt.ens.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from lplist@closedsrc.org on Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 05:50:32AM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Linh Pham said on Jul 12, 2001 at 05:50:32: > > Most of the time (since I work in Windows at work) I take Visio network > diagrams and other files types and create PDFs so that I can distribute > a more portable format to co-workers. There are times that I generatea > PS file on a BSD machine and then use Acrobat Distiller to generate PDFs > :) Ah, in that case you may want to use "epstopdf" (a script available in the teTeX distribution; I can send it to you separately if you like. It also calls ghostscript). If what you have is an image file for embedding elsewhere, rather than than a printable document, this is probably more suitable. - Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message