Re: any tools to convert to pdf format?
On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Frederic Parain wrote:
> Aaron Stromas writes:
> > hi,
> >
> > are there any linux tools that convert documents to the pdf format?
> > and what format should be input to those tools? i know that on win32 the
> > acrobat
> > writer converts m$ word and postscript to pdf. i'd prefer not to use any
> > m$ products.
> > i could use latex to generate postscript, and if there a tool to convert
> > postscript to pdf
> > i'd be all set. tia,
>
> gs is your friend!
> Look at the -sDEVICE=pdfwrite option.
just another hint:
use the 'times' package in the latex documents you want to convert to pdf.
The original latex fonts look very ugly on pdf viewers.
\usepackage{times} will force latex to use postscript fonts that look very
nice and very similar to adobe ones.
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