$author = "Angus Lees" ;
>
> At Wed, 3 Apr 2002 11:39:31 +1000, marty wrote:
> > what tools are people using to create PDFs?
>
> i use pdftex (or rather, pdflatex). it usually produces pdf's of
> higher quality (conformance to pdf standard and general layout) than
> the adobe tools themselves.
i never used latex before, any good tools or primers on it?
> > the tool doesn't need to work with .doc's, just any format i can save from
> > abiword in...
>
> i presume abiword can save a plain text file ?
it can, it can do quite a few formats...
there were quite a few suggestions to use ps2pdf, but absent from the "save as"
list was postscript...
it took a decent whack from the self applied clue stick to realise that
printing to a file produced postscript output...
however the resulting PDF chopped half a character from the ends of a couple
of lines... but i was at the point where close enough was good enough...
marty
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