George Borisov wrote: > Thibaut Paumard wrote: >> Fortunately, this statement is as false as can be. Under GNU/Linux, the >> easy way of creating a PDF from whatever is to print to PS and then run >> ps2pdf on the output. The resulting PDF is of good quality, searchable, >> and often smaller than the input PS. Using LaTeX, you can even embed >> movies in your PDF's (they won't show in acroread for linux though, only >> under windows and MacOS). > > I am very happy to be proven wrong, in this case. Maybe not. :-( Just tried to print some text from Firefox to PS and then use ps2pdf. The resulting file is _not_ searchable (xpdf and evince,) and at 28K is more than twice the size of the same text being printed through Acrobat (12K) Hopefully I'm doing something wrong... -- George Borisov DXSolutions Ltd
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