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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.

[]s,
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