Re: Creating pdf documents under woody

2004-03-04 Thread A. F. Cano
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 04:03:30AM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > ... > It sounds like there is a problem with your latex installation. Is the > document in english (english letters that is)? Try getting a true latex > file and see how it works. Lyx can import text files quite nicely BTW. Yes. It's

Re: Creating pdf documents under woody

2004-03-04 Thread A. F. Cano
On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 08:25:22PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 07:52:16PM -0500, A. F. Cano wrote: > > Ah yes, but how do you get PS from the formats that abiword can produce? > > (abw, aw, awt, dbk, fo, html, xhtml, latex, rft, wlm; some obviously > > proprietary form

Re: Creating pdf documents under woody

2004-03-04 Thread A. F. Cano
On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 08:28:30PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 02:19:11AM +0100, Jonathan Schmitt wrote: > > > > ... > > after you have the tex source written, do the following: > > tex file.tex; dvips -o file.ps file.dvi; ps2pdf file.ps This works too (dvips inste

Re: Creating pdf documents under woody

2004-03-04 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 02:19:11AM +0100, Jonathan Schmitt wrote: > > >Ah yes, but how do you get PS from the formats that abiword can produce? > >(abw, aw, awt, dbk, fo, html, xhtml, latex, rft, wlm; some obviously > >proprietary formats dropped) > Mozilla can print html to ps. > You can almos

Re: Creating pdf documents under woody

2004-03-04 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 05:22:23PM -0500, A. F. Cano wrote: > Hello all, > > The quick version: what's the best way to create pdf documents under > woody (3.0 r2)? > > What I've done, with no success... > > First I looked at the various word processors and saw that none (that > I could find) had

Re: Creating pdf documents under woody

2004-03-04 Thread A. F. Cano
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 02:19:11AM +0100, Jonathan Schmitt wrote: > > >Ah yes, but how do you get PS from the formats that abiword can produce? > >(abw, aw, awt, dbk, fo, html, xhtml, latex, rft, wlm; some obviously > >proprietary formats dropped) > > You can almost always produce a ps file by pr

Re: Creating pdf documents under woody

2004-03-04 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Jonathan Schmitt said on Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 02:19:11AM +0100: > There should be (in theory) a dvi2ps and then ps2pdf but dvi2ps is not > installed on my system and I've no idea, where to get it. There is, it's just called dvips. It's in the tetex-bin package. M pgp0.pgp Description: PG

Re: Creating pdf documents under woody

2004-03-04 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 02:19:11AM +0100, Jonathan Schmitt wrote: > > >Ah yes, but how do you get PS from the formats that abiword can produce? > >(abw, aw, awt, dbk, fo, html, xhtml, latex, rft, wlm; some obviously > >proprietary formats dropped) > > You can almost always produce a ps file by pr

Re: Creating pdf documents under woody

2004-03-04 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 07:52:16PM -0500, A. F. Cano wrote: > On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 11:40:16PM +0100, Jonathan Schmitt wrote: > > > > >The quick version: what's the best way to create pdf documents under > > >woody (3.0 r2)? > > Hallo, > > Iv'e been using (successfully) ps2pdf to confert postscr

Re: Creating pdf documents under woody

2004-03-04 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
>Ah yes, but how do you get PS from the formats that abiword can produce? >(abw, aw, awt, dbk, fo, html, xhtml, latex, rft, wlm; some obviously >proprietary formats dropped) You can almost always produce a ps file by printing to a file. Just use a ps-capable printerdriver and "print" it into a f

Re: Creating pdf documents under woody

2004-03-04 Thread A. F. Cano
On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 11:40:16PM +0100, Jonathan Schmitt wrote: > > >The quick version: what's the best way to create pdf documents under > >woody (3.0 r2)? > Hallo, > Iv'e been using (successfully) ps2pdf to confert postscript to pdf and before Ah yes, but how do you get PS from the formats t

Re: Creating pdf documents under woody

2004-03-04 Thread Kent West
A. F. Cano wrote: Hello all, The quick version: what's the best way to create pdf documents under woody (3.0 r2)? As someone else pointed out, you might want to upgrade to OO.o 1.1. I use it to create PDFs. It's just a "File/Export As PDF" click away. (Examples at http://www.qsl.net/kcarc/KC

Re: Creating pdf documents under woody

2004-03-04 Thread Alan Shutko
"A. F. Cano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The quick version: what's the best way to create pdf documents under > woody (3.0 r2)? The easiest way would be to use ps2pdf, part of the gs package. You would create a postscript file from any of the packages you mentioned, then ps2pdf would turn it i

Re: Creating pdf documents under woody

2004-03-04 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
>The quick version: what's the best way to create pdf documents under >woody (3.0 r2)? Hallo, Iv'e been using (successfully) ps2pdf to confert postscript to pdf and before that converted dvi to postscript. As with the WYSIWYG editor, I suggest OpenOffice. I don't know whether or not 1.1 is part

Creating pdf documents under woody

2004-03-04 Thread A. F. Cano
Hello all, The quick version: what's the best way to create pdf documents under woody (3.0 r2)? What I've done, with no success... First I looked at the various word processors and saw that none (that I could find) had a pdf export facility, so based on the ease of use and the fact that abiword