Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 08:31:41 -0400 From: William O'Higgins <william.ohiggins@utoronto.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: writing pdfs Message-ID: <20031010123141.GA1925@sillyrabbi.dyndns.org>
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I have grown tired of using MS Word as my standard document output format. I haven't gotten OpenOffice to work under FreeBSD (and it isn't my favourite tool by a long shot) and I am most happy generating text in vi. PDF is eminently portable, and I think that it would suit my purposes nicely. I had some thoughts about generating PDFs, but I was hoping for advice about which tools to use. Should I just learn how to mark up a text page manually (I write HTML almost as quickly as plain text)? Should I learn TeX or some variant and translate it? I hear that PHP has some excellent PDF-generation tools; should I write up a command-line interpreter myself? Any suggestions would be appreciated. I did a bit of searching, but I didn't find any real *advice* on what process to use, and most of the tools that I found are for viewing PDFs, not writing them. Thanks. -- yours, William
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