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Document Formats (was OSE Development Meeting)
- From: kevin.taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 08:23:19 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <C1256959.002D4F7B.00@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> PDF and PS are proprietry but open formats for which there are
> freely available readers for /all/ platforms. There are few tools
> for dealing with .doc's on nix and none to produce them.
There are free tools for creating these too. The LDP
uses tools to take the SGML source, apply a suitable
document definition and produce :
- HTML (multi-page)
- HTML (single-page)
- ASCII
- RTF
- PS
All using freely available tools. I think the PS and PDF
formats use TeX though - so they are quite beefy tools,
but they are available.
It is possible to convert PS files (print to file) to pdf
using adobes distiller (if you have the money) - but
also using ghostscript (if you have the time).
Never used these tools myself, but I have seen the
outputs on a document of mine (written for the LDP).
Kevin.
Northants LUG
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