- creating pdf files from Linux
- Posted by Neil Zanella on September 30th, 2003
Hello,
I would like to know what other software is avaialble for Linux that allows you
to generate pdf files besides pdftex/pdflatex. In particular are there any
packages which have a GUI front-end and allow you to specify headers and
footers?
Thanks,
Neil
- Posted by Bob Tennent on October 1st, 2003
On 30 Sep 2003 16:15:54 -0700, Neil Zanella wrote:
Virtually any Postscript file can be converted to PDF using ps2pdf,
which is included with ghostscript. And anything printable can be
converted to Postscript by "printing" to a file. So you're asking the
wrong question. You should be asking about applications that can format
documents as you want. Anything such an application produces will be
convertible to PDF, even if the application itself doesn't do it. By GUI
front end do you mean WYSIWYG? Then I guess you need a word processor,
such as openoffice or abiword. But you might want to try LyX, which is a
compromise between WYSIWYG and LaTeX.
Bob T.
- Posted by John Thompson on October 1st, 2003
On 2003-09-30, Neil Zanella <nzanella@cs.mun.ca> wrote:
HTMLDoc: http://www.easysw.com/software.html
OpenOffice.org: http://www.openoffice.org
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-John (JohnThompson@new.rr.com)
- Posted by Noah Roberts on October 1st, 2003
Neil Zanella wrote:
Being able to generate pdf files is simply a side effect of making an
excelent choice in operating system. Print your document to a file
named 'xxxx.ps' (it can be any name and .ps is not required) and then
run 'ps2pdf xxxx.ps xxxx.pdf'. BAM, you are done...
In KDE you can even choose "print to pdf" when you print.
NR
- Posted by Bill Unruh on October 1st, 2003
nzanella@cs.mun.ca (Neil Zanella) writes:
]Hello,
]I would like to know what other software is avaialble for Linux that allows you
]to generate pdf files besides pdftex/pdflatex. In particular are there any
]packages which have a GUI front-end and allow you to specify headers and
]footers?
Well, latex certainly allows you to have headers and footers.
However it is not clear what you wnat. If you want to edit pdf documents then I do not know
If you just want to generate a pdf, then there are also things like ps2pdf which will generate
a pdf document out of a postscript one and all word processors can output postscipt.
Also the new Staroffice allows you to output pdf documents.
