Re: Creating PDF files with RH 9.0

From: Robert McKee (mckeehpnospamway_at_eteddys.net)
Date: 04/05/05 

Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 20:12:38 -0700

Unruh wrote:
> George <grganjei@bellsouth.net> writes:
>
>
>>Mike,
>
>
>>Yes, Open Office would work too, thanks! Really, I was looking for the
>>nice "PDF Printer" that Mandrake had, to generate PDFs from just about
>>anything. But I can always make a .ps file and use ps2pdf if I really
>>need to.
>
>
>>-George
>
>
>>On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 05:41:16 GMT, Mike <linuxrocksSPAMSUCKS@telus.net>
>>wrote:
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>
>>>Try Open Office. I do believe you can save in .pdf format. Good luck
>>>George.
>
>
> Has anyone else had problems that pdf files created on Linux are not
> readable on Windows systems-- served via apache from Linux
>

No, I've been doing that alot, no problems here.

To the original poster,
try creating a Postscript file and using the command line tool ps2pdf

It works for me.

Robert

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