H.S. wrote:
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.
The KDE desktop has KPrinter, which will generate PDFs. IIRC, CUPS will
too.
--
Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org>
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected]
For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
