Re: PDF file generation.

2001-06-30 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Matthew Garman wrote: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 11:37:53AM -0400, Daniel Doro Ferrante wrote: > > I am trying to generate some .pdf files from either .dvi or .ps ones. > > Well, in my experience, I've never seen a ps-to-pdf converter that works. I'm very surprised to hea

Re: PDF file generation.

2001-06-30 Thread Paul Huygen
Matt Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, in my experience, I've never seen a ps-to-pdf converter that works. Do you use Potato, Woody or Sid? The problem seems to be, that Ghostscript with versions < 6.5 seems to be broken with respect to PDF generation (ps-to-pdf converters are usually scr

Re: PDF file generation.

2001-06-29 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 11:37:53AM -0400, Daniel Doro Ferrante wrote: > > > Hi Folks, > > I am trying to generate some .pdf files from either .dvi or .ps ones. > That's what's happening: > > " [olympus:~/work/cascv/random] > dvipdf rng.dvi > Unrecoverable error: invalidfileaccess in

Re: PDF file generation.

2001-06-29 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Matthew Garman wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 11:37:53AM -0400, Daniel Doro Ferrante wrote: > > I am trying to generate some .pdf files from either .dvi or .ps ones. > > Well, in my experience, I've never seen a ps-to-pdf converter that works. Or Adobe Distiller which is actually very

Re: PDF file generation.

2001-06-29 Thread Alan Shutko
Matthew Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've never used (or seen) a dvi-to-pdf converter, however. dvipdfm , though that URL seems to be down at the moment. It's in woody and sid, and on CTAN. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors!

Re: PDF file generation.

2001-06-29 Thread Matthew Garman
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 11:37:53AM -0400, Daniel Doro Ferrante wrote: > I am trying to generate some .pdf files from either .dvi or .ps ones. Well, in my experience, I've never seen a ps-to-pdf converter that works. I've never used (or seen) a dvi-to-pdf converter, however. Do you have the

PDF file generation.

2001-06-29 Thread Daniel Doro Ferrante
Hi Folks, I am trying to generate some .pdf files from either .dvi or .ps ones. That's what's happening: " [olympus:~/work/cascv/random] > dvipdf rng.dvi Unrecoverable error: invalidfileaccess in .setdevice Operand stack: --nostringval-- Unexpected interpreter error -9. Err

Re: PDF file generation

1998-08-25 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 02:43:47PM -0400, Ossama Othman wrote: > > > How does one create a PDF (Acrobat) file? In searching through the > > packages I found a number of ways to view a PDF file, but didn't seem to > > find any way to create one. > > The only ways I am aware of besides using Adobe

Re: PDF file generation

1998-08-18 Thread Ossama Othman
> How does one create a PDF (Acrobat) file? In searching through the > packages I found a number of ways to view a PDF file, but didn't seem to > find any way to create one. The only ways I am aware of besides using Adobe Acrobat is to use "ps2pdf," found in the ghostscript package or by using u

Re: PDF file generation

1998-08-18 Thread Shaleh
To the best of my knowledge only Adobe Acrobat (the actual 300 dollar app) is the only thing capable of making a pdf. You are better of using postscript or the like. If I recall there may be apps to convert one to the other. Stephen A. Witt wrote: > > How does one create a PDF (Acrobat) file?

PDF file generation

1998-08-18 Thread Stephen A. Witt
How does one create a PDF (Acrobat) file? In searching through the packages I found a number of ways to view a PDF file, but didn't seem to find any way to create one. Thanks...