From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Jun 29 14:36:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA14622 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 14:36:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ranma.nectar.com (nat.gulfsouth.verio.net [204.27.64.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA14573 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 14:35:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nectar@ranma.nectar.com) Received: from ranma.nectar.com (localhost.gulfsouth.verio.net [127.0.0.1]) by ranma.nectar.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA09020; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 16:32:32 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199806292132.QAA09020@ranma.nectar.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 X-PGP-RSAfprint: 00 F9 E6 A2 C5 4D 0A 76 26 8B 8B 57 73 D0 DE EE X-PGP-RSAkey: http://www.nectar.com/nectar-pgp262.txt From: Jacques Vidrine In-reply-to: <199806291612.SAA08608@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> References: <199806291612.SAA08608@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: pdf pain... To: Luigi Rizzo cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 16:32:31 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I use Ghostscript 5.10 ... see the ports collection. It has a driver for PDF, and a little wrapper script ps2pdf. I use it regularly as part of the trip from LaTeX -> dvi -> ps -> pdf. Jacques Vidrine On 29 June 1998 at 18:12, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > I am having a problem... people here are insisting that some > documentation be made available in PDF (the previous format of choice > was Word DOC format...) so i wonder if there is a solution to produce > PDF from postscript without having to run Windows and/or having to buy > the writer from adobe. > > The best i can come up with is getting some cheap pdf writer, run it > under windows, and use "vnc" to access the machine from X. Any better > idea ? > > thanks > luigi > -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- > Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione > email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa > tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) > fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ > _____________________________|______________________________________ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNZgH7zeRhT8JRySpAQEfFQP+OyeKmJcoYv/QdUrxajwnFx9KhbHExWdL c9k8dYbkLS+Xwr6KiCD1JSkeMD37TxyT+nyT/sawpRIMVDof4CfIMqrFjJiG4JhX ksGhDas13k3D8HeJJSxlPD6kk6kS+WtMK0C+SGpO2bPDkZJr/6IHnp4EfgNJJdH8 NN2n4NEJa9c= =XInn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message