Re: [O] Org HTML->PDF publishing

2012-09-24 Thread Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
Just for the record, I just downloaded Adobe Acrobat, and org->html->acrobat seems to be a viable workflow, and not as expensive as Prince. However, Acrobat, as far as I'm concerned, doesn't provide any way to automate the process - you have to open it and edit it manually in order to polish the t

Re: [O] Org HTML->PDF publishing

2012-09-22 Thread Srinivas
There is a free license for non-commerical use: >From princexml.com: We offer a free license for non-commercial use of Prince. This license adds a small logo to the first page of generated PDF files. Will this work for you?

Re: [O] Org HTML->PDF publishing

2012-09-20 Thread Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
Thank you for the suggestion guys. It looks as if most of the free solutions don't produce a very good output. Prince does look very good, but it's way too much expensive. I think using org and exporting to both HTML and learning just enough LaTeX in order to export a well formatted output with a

Re: [O] Org HTML->PDF publishing

2012-09-19 Thread Srinivas
You might want to take a look at http://www.princexml.com/ It allows you to specify css and then print to PDF using a command line tool.

Re: [O] Org HTML->PDF publishing

2012-09-18 Thread Luis Anaya
Marcelo de Moraes Serpa writes: > Hey guys, > Is it feasible to publish something (say an ebook) to html and then > convert it to pdf? [chomp] > Has anyone tried this workflow? More ideas: - Calibre (calibre-ebook.com) can convert HTML to PDF, open source and free. - OpenOffice/LibreOffice.

Re: [O] Org HTML->PDF publishing

2012-09-18 Thread John Hendy
If you have the html, there seem to be some things around to convert to PDF: - http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/ - http://pypi.python.org/pypi/xhtml2pdf/ - http://www.winnovative-software.com/download.aspx - http://www.html2pdf.fr/en Good luck! John On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Marcelo d

Re: [O] Org HTML->PDF publishing

2012-09-18 Thread Eduardo Ochs
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa < celose...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey guys, > > Is it feasible to publish something (say an ebook) to html and then > convert it to pdf? > > I know *TeX is the most powerful framework for creating PDFs, but given > that I'm more familiar with

[O] Org HTML->PDF publishing

2012-09-18 Thread Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
Hey guys, Is it feasible to publish something (say an ebook) to html and then convert it to pdf? I know *TeX is the most powerful framework for creating PDFs, but given that I'm more familiar with CSS, I'm sure I could come up with a better style for the document in much less time than if, say, u