Dotan Cohen wrote: >> So, until then, if there is trouble in the Windows environment, >> look for doPDF. I do not know if it is in any other >> OS's. But there are bound to be some free one for the other >> OS systems. doPDF is the best of the free ones for Windows >> that work on XP and Vista. >> > > All the major Linux distros come with PDF printers preinstalled, and > have for at least the past eight years. It's never been a problem for > Linux users to export PDFs from any program that can print. >
I do not recall noticing the "PDF printers" were preinstalled in the distros I have experience with (Redhat, Fedora, Debian, FreeBSD, Gentoo). One needed to install some special packages for such a feature (something xprint-pdf or some such thing for Mozilla), or to setup a printer to do so. The most common method I know is to print to PS and then do ps2pdf on that ps file. Printing to PS is what I would call the de-facto printers that all distros had. But practically you are right. It was never too much a trouble to create a PDF from a standard install, only that "Print to PDF" was just every uncommon or non-existent. "Print to PS" was common. -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email address are just filtered to a folder in my mailbox and get periodically deleted without ever having been read. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
