Re: PDF Files (was tlug: Silly Questions.)

[Selva Nair <selva@example.com>]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Marcos Campos wrote:

>    >for a CV in "word format" -- it did happen to me as they had no idea of
>    >what to do with the postscript (same with pdf) files I had sent. That
>    >too by a firm that claims to be "a leader in online " whatever. I
>    >managed by falling back on the age old fascimile transmission.
>    >
>    >Selva
>    
>    Selva was the second person to say that is able to prepare pdf format file. 
>    As far as I konw only Adobe is able to produce such a file and that software 
>    costs a lot!! There is another programa that I don't know that can convert a 
>    file wrote in Applixware or StarOffice or postscript in a pdf file?
>    
>    Marcos

I use :

(i)   ghostscript  : gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=foo.pdf foo.ps

(or the shell script 'ps2pdf' that essentially does the same thing)  

(ii)   pdftex /pdflatex

both of which are free.       

Of course LZW compression is not supported because of the (in)famous
Unisys patent, but both do a decent job. The resulting pdf look good on
acrobat reader.

Selva

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