On 06-Dec-2002/09:40 -0600, Jim Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am a Linux user and I need to find a way to create PDF documents >easy. Is there a way to output a text document from a program with >some formatting such as compressed print and then convert it to PDF? I >think I once saw something on the list about a printer definition that >produced a file in PDF rather than sending it to a true printer. Maybe >I was dreaming. > >Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Every GUI app that I've seen in Linux offers a Print to File option that produces a Postscript file. Postscript can be readily converted to PDF using the 'ps2pdf' utility that ships with most Linux distros. Tony -- Anthony E. Greene <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D AOL/Yahoo Chat: TonyG05 HomePage: <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/> Linux: the choice of a GNU Generation. <http://www.linux.org/> -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
