Hello all, The quick version: what's the best way to create pdf documents under woody (3.0 r2)?
What I've done, with no success... First I looked at the various word processors and saw that none (that I could find) had a pdf export facility, so based on the ease of use and the fact that abiword gives me a WYSIWYG view for the not too complex documents I need to write, and the fact that it can export to latex (among many other formats), I imported what I had already written with vi (what a pain! all that mouse fidgeting, especially on a laptop). Converting a latex exported file to pdf via pdflatex should have been simple, right? Garbage output. I then tried to compile the latest abiword (2.0.3) as there is apparently no backport for woody: Dependency hell. Tried to import the abw file info openoffice.org (1.0.3): "Read Error; Error loading converter" The same happens when trying to load the latex file. Tried to import the abw file into lyx - it wouldn't take it. Tried to import the latex file exported by abiword - lyx didn't understand the \textcolor commands. Even so, exported to pdf from lyx: The same gargage output as above. Imported the abw file into Kword. Surprisingly it looked ok, the format was preserved properly. Alas, no pdf export here, so tried to export to tex format. Then ran pdftex: garbage. Not as bad as above, but the formatting was totally lost and there were weird numbers interspersed in the text. I'm starting to think that no matter how many other editors & converters I try, I can't get there from here... It's pretty surprising that none of these newfangled word processors seem to be able to export to plain postscript (or maybe I overlooked the one...) Unfortunately, I *have to* produce pdf documents. No choice there. Does anyone have a solution? Thanks! A. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
