Rohit Vishal Kumar wrote: > > Ways of making PDF > > 1. Buy Adobe Distiller for Rs. 22K > 2. Install Latex and used pdflatex. Rs. Free size 40 MB ;-) > 3. Do a brute force conversion using intermidiaries like ghostscript etc. > > Siddhartha Basu wrote: > > Hi, > > It's called 'Portable document format'. For more > > > > siddhartha
The first two options are, in my opinion, overkill. The third works well in most cases: using ghostscript to convert make pdf out of Postscript. A wrapper shell script called "ps2pdf" to do this is part of the ghostscript package. The manpage for ps2pdf tells more. Of course, the question of how to produce a postscript file to feed to ps2pdf still remains. Usually, unless the original format is really weird, a sufficient variety of conversion programs are available to do the job. If the original source is a graphic file then Imagemagick can be useful in effecting the conversion. - Manas Laha -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
