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Re: Creating pdf documents under woody



"A. F. Cano" <afc@shibaya.lonestar.org> writes:

> The quick version: what's the best way to create pdf documents under
> woody (3.0 r2)?

The easiest way would be to use ps2pdf, part of the gs package.  You
would create a postscript file from any of the packages you
mentioned, then ps2pdf would turn it into a PDF.

You wouldn't end up with the snazzy bookmarks and hyperlinks you
would in a LaTeX document converted with a working pdflatex, but
since you aren't authoring things in LaTeX and your pdflatex doesn't
appear to be working, you aren't really losing anything.

Woody has gs 6.53, which iirc does a pretty decent job at the
conversion.  Newer versions will do better in certain cases, but I
think that 6.53 was pretty stable for anything except weird
cases/fonts/etc.


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