On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 05:22:23PM -0500, A. F. Cano wrote: > 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. >
It sounds like there is a problem with your latex installation. Is the document in english (english letters that is)? Try getting a true latex file and see how it works. Lyx can import text files quite nicely BTW. > 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...) > They should all be able to export to postscript since that is the native printing method under Linux (most things are converted to postscript and then converted to printer format through ghostscript). Try looking into a print to file option. >From postscript you can convert to pdf using ps2pdf > Unfortunately, I *have to* produce pdf documents. No choice there. > Does anyone have a solution? > You can also look into openoffice. At least version 1.1 export pdfs quite well. You can also convert to html, open in mozilla and print to postscript file. One problem you can have with corrupt postscript (and probably pdf) is with no english text where the encoding and the font aren't encoded properly into the file. Mozilla will need Xprt from Xprt.org (not the X11 one) for this. > Thanks! > > A. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
