PDF vs. .doc [was Re: Boston Linux Conference December 3-4 ]

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In a message dated: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 00:29:50 EST
Erik Price said:

>On Friday, November 22, 2002, at 06:09  PM, Travis Roy wrote:
>
>> I don't see PDF being much better since windows users
>> will still have to go get something like Adobe Acrobat. On a Mac 
>> however
>> PDF rocks since it's built in.
>
>Yes, this is how I was able to generate the PDF without purchasing 
>Distiller for a few hundred bucks...

You can do this easily enough on UNIX with ghostscript package which 
included wrappers for ps2pdf, pdf2ps, etc..  Or, if you 
use TeX for your base formatting language (LaTeX, LyX, etc.) you can 
easily convert from [La]TeX to ps/pdf.

So, with UNIX, you still don't need to by the distiller :)
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