Re: Creating pdf documents under woody

From: A. F. Cano (afc_at_shibaya.lonestar.org)
Date: 03/05/04

  • Next message: Micha Feigin: "Re: Creating pdf documents under woody" 
    Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 21:04:28 -0500
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org

    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 printing to a file. Just use a

    Yes of course! (hitting forehead with palm of hand). I should have
    thought of that.

    BTW, this is the option that produces the best output. All lists are
    there, etc... Totally acceptable quality.

    > ps-capable printerdriver and "print" it into a file. That's one way.
    > The other one is this:
    > You take latex. By latex file.tex You get a dvi file. You take this dvi into
    > kdvi (provided You're using kde) and export it to ps (or directly to pdf).

    Thanks for all these tips. This one didn't work. Importing to kdvi
    already shows some font anomaly in the lists. Exporting to pdf directly
    fails for lack of a "dvipdfm" program. Exporting to PS works, but when
    trying to display the resulting file with xpdf, I get the same kind of
    garbage I got from my original efforts. However, there's a hint as to
    what the problem is:

    Error: This document uses Type 3 fonts - some text may not be correctly displayed

    > 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.

    Same here: no dvi2ps. Anyway, thanks again. I now have a good pdf
    document. I'll see what OpenOffice can do in the future. Now that I
    have 1.1 installed...

    A. 

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