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From: Jim Lowe <james@miller.cs.uwm.edu>
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To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it
Subject: Re:  pdf pain...
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> From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
> Subject: pdf pain...
> To: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
> 
> 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 ?

I use /usr/ports/print/acroread, but I get the impression this is not
what you are looking for.

Something like:	acroread -toPostScipt < file.pdf >file.ps

	-Jim

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