Actually, these same tools found on most Linux systems (e.g., Ghostscript and ImageMagick) are also available for Windows under similar licensing terms. ImageMagick in particular has an API to allow you to use the routines from other programs. There's also HTMLDoc, which will convert HTML documents into a variety of formats, including PDF, and PDFlib, which is a library of PDF routines for C, C++, Perl, Tcl, Python, Java, and ActiveX/COM. Adobe isn't stingy about the specs, either. Adobe technical documentation: http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/technotes.html Adobe PDF 1.3 specifications: http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/acrosdk/DOCS/pdfspec.pdf or http://www.wotsit.org/ ImageMagick: ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/ImageMagick/ HTMLDoc: http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc Ghostscript: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ or http://www.ghostscript.com/ PDFlib: http://www.pdflib.com -----Original Message----- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 07:12:00 -0600 From: "Douglas Knudsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PDF with CF newbie question Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> not if you use UNIX or Linux! These have free tools to convert to pdf, ps, dvi, etc... From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AT INTERNET on 01/30/2001 10:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AT INTERNET@CCMAIL cc: (bcc: Douglas Knudsen/ATL/ALLTELCORP) Subject: Re: PDF with CF newbie question At least the "shall we say , free one downloadable from " Adobes site "Milks, Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 0160C6B4BB54D41182AB0001024294B0068318@EXCHANGE">news:0160C6B4BB54D41182AB0001024294B0068318@EXCHANGE... > I can safely assume that the custom tags which generate PDFs still require > the full-blown acrobat, correct? > > Jim > > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
