Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3103 mails)

[David Herman <mesamoo115@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 12 February 2003 12:16 pm, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> The 03.02.10 at 14:38, David Herman wrote:
> > Thanks Carlos, I'll look at that (Ps2pdf.htm).
>
> Welcome.
>
> > Most of the ugliness I run into seems to occur when I'm creating a
> > pdf from a web page viewed in konq. (I assume they are using fonts
> > not on my system).
>
> Ah. I noticed the otherday that a pdf produced directly from inside
> OpenOffice was worse than the one made by ps2pdf. As for converting
> html files, there is also an "html2ps" program :-)
>
> Otherwise, you could try Mozilla for that same page, I fancy it would
> produce beter output (.ps).
>
> > Anything created on my system appears fine on my system.
> > Also I'm usually quite happy just printing to a postscript file
> > instead of pdf. But I'm still trying to learn what works most
> > consistantly.
>
> Well, the pdf file is way smaller, usually, and more portable: I
> mean, it is seen equally well by windows users and others. You can
> not do the same as easily with postscript (I know there is
> ghostscript in windows, at least)
>
> > Sounds like your suggestion may be a good solution for creating
> > pdf's on the occasions I need them.
>
> It is handy, yes. It is just a script calling gs.
>

Thanks Again Carlos, I'll try your suggestions next time I get a chance.

See Ya

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dh
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