[ale] Re: Ale Digest, Vol 7, Issue 10

[Johnny Preyer]

There are several perl modules that create PDFs pretty easily (try
PDF::Create and PDF::API2).

Also, there's ascii2pdf. (http://bulldog.tzo.org/ascii2pdf/ascii2pdf.html),
which transforms simple text to PDFs.  It requires PDF::Create perl module.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Grady Harris [mailto:gharri2 at emory.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 6:00 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] Re: Ale Digest, Vol 7, Issue 10
> 
> 
> To tell the truth, I've only done enough LaTeX by hand to 
> figure out what the
> references to previous means meant, & to be able to discuss it with a
> mathematician buddy who is helping me with a transcription 
> where I'm using
> MathML, which he hadn't heard of.
> 
> For PDFs, I've been using XSL-FO. The literature & 
> implementations seem kind of
> thin for a spec that's been a full recommendation some three 
> years (though I
> will probably figure that one out soon), but the mailing 
> lists are active,
> which is one of the reasons I coveted a gmail account--thank 
> you, Sergio.
> 
> PDFs are the big thing where I work, in a medical library--so 
> far, OpenOffice
> has been about the only way to produce them from original 
> work that I can
> persuade somebody else to use (co-workers & patrons have an 
> entirely reasonable
> aversion to visible mark-up). Any suggestions for other 
> Free/Open Source ways to
> generate PDFs that do not involve a text editor?
> 
> Grady Harris
> 
> Quoting ale-request at ale.org:
> > Message: 12
> > Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 14:44:51 -0500 (EST)
> > From: John Mills <johnmills at speakeasy.net>
> > Subject: Re: [ale] Q: PDFing hyperlinks
> > To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
> >
> > Grady -
> >
> > Thanks. Looks promising. I'll file a battle report. Since I have
> > StarOffice in Linux and OO in M$Win, I'll see where/if it works.
> >
> > I have created bookmarked, indexed, hyperlinked PDFs using a set of
> > [someone else's] LaTeX macros and Adobe's Distiller - 
> there, run in SunOS.
> > I must say it worked and the results were very good, but 
> hand-built LaTeX
> > is a *$^&%!! of an expensive way to write!
> >
> > Aside - _When_ will Adobe release the Distiller for Linux??
> >
> 
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