But some of these open source server based PDF makers - they do make PDF
files that can be searched right?
Cheers,
Richard.
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From: "Pierluigi Miranda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 8:48 PM
Subject: Re: [e-smith doc] FYI - Article on DocBook XML...
> Richard Ford wrote:
>
> >Yet there are no 'freeware' or opensource windows PDF makers. So if the
> > whole open source community is making PDF's for free? Why? If the
> >standard was open - why is acrobat the only expensive option for the
> > windows desktop?
>
>
> If you need full support for all PDF features, you are right.
>
> If you can live with PDF documents that are equivalent to printed ones (no
> indexes, no searches, no hyperlinks, no tables of contents and so on)
there
> is a freeware solution for Windows that allows to produce PDF files by
> printing on a "PDF printer" from Windows applications.
>
> The simpler solution, from the user point of view, consists in assembling
> together AFPL Ghostscript, the RedMon port Monitor and FreePDF, but it is
> possible to use Ghostscript and RedMon only, at the price of a harsher
user
> interface.
>
> More info on:
>
> AFPL Ghostscript: http:/w/ww.ghostscript.com
> RedMon: http://www.ghostgum.com.au
> FreePDF: http://over.to/freepdf
>
> --
>
> Pierluigi Miranda
>
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