Re: Creating pdf documents under woody
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 02:19:11AM +0100, Jonathan Schmitt wrote:
>
> >Ah yes, but how do you get PS from the formats that abiword can produce?
> >(abw, aw, awt, dbk, fo, html, xhtml, latex, rft, wlm; some obviously
> >proprietary formats dropped)
>
> You can almost always produce a ps file by printing to a file. Just use a
> ps-capable printerdriver and "print" it into a file. That's one way.
> The other one is this:
> You take latex. By latex file.tex You get a dvi file.
after you have the tex source written, do the following:
tex file.tex; dvips -o file.ps file.dvi; ps2pdf file.ps
> kdvi (provided You're using kde) and export it to ps (or directly to pdf).
> There should be (in theory) a dvi2ps and then ps2pdf but dvi2ps is not
> installed on my system and I've no idea, where to get it.
apt-get install dvips, or even better, since in your case you seem to
have an incomplete tex system:
tasksel, choose tex environment.
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