Hi I did used the 3rd option (brute force) to create PDF files from my application in Clipper a few years ago. Which am yet to port to our web based solution running on Linux.
Rajesh > 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. > > <snip> > 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 -- 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
