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

[Price, Erik]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pll at lanminds.com [mailto:pll at lanminds.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 8:32 AM
> To: Erik Price
> Cc: Travis Roy; 'Greater New Hampshire LUG'
> Subject: PDF vs. .doc [was Re: Boston Linux Conference December 3-4 ]
> 
> 
> 
> In a message dated: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 00:29:50 EST
> Erik Price said:
> 
> >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 :)

I wish I had more time to learn how to use these tools, they sound
much more versatile than what MacOS X offers.  Still, it is very
easy in MacOS X ... FWIU, the native display format for all documents
is PDF so you when you choose to Print a file (from any application,
not just "some applications that support this"), you can select
"to PDF" and instead of going to the printer, the output gets saved
as a PDF.

Not as versatile, but easy....


Erik