[olug] Word Doc/or rtf to pdf

[Brian Wiese]

On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 17:08:38 -0500
"Jeff Hinrichs" <jlh at cox.net> wrote:

|Print the document to a Postscript  file.  Then use a free (advertising
|supported service) such as
|    http://www.ps2pdf.com/convert/convert.htm  (The service uses
|ghostscipt.)
|It will render the PS file to a pdf.  very nice and cheap.
|
|To render a word or rtf file to PS open it in OpenOffice and print to a
PS
|printer but direct output to a file instead of a device.
|
|hth,
|
|Jeff

I knew there was some kind of program like that on my gnu/linux suse 7.3
box... so I did a quick listing...

bwiese at liberty:~> man -k pdf
ps2pdf12 (1)         - Convert PostScript to PDF 1.2 (Acrobat 3-and-later
compatible) using ghostscript
texi2dvi4a2ps (1)    - Compile Texinfo and LaTeX files to DVI or PDF
pdftotext (1)        - Portable Document Format (PDF) to text converter
(version 0.92)
pdfimages (1)        - Portable Document Format (PDF) image extractor
(version 0.92)
snmpdf (1)           - gets a listing of disk space usage on a remote
machine via SNMP
ps2pdfwr (1)         - Convert PostScript to PDF without specifying
CompatibilityLevel, using ghostscript
dvipdf (1)           - Convert TeX DVI file to PDF using ghostscript and
dvips
ps2pdf (1)           - Convert PostScript to PDF using ghostscript
gsnd (1)             - Run ghostscript (PostScript and PDF engine) without
display
ps2pdf13 (1)         - Convert PostScript to PDF 1.3 (Acrobat 4-and-later
compatible) using ghostscript
pdf2dsc (1)          - generate a PostScript page list of a PDF document
xpdf (1)             - Portable Document Format (PDF) file viewer for X
(version 0.92)
pdftops (1)          - Portable Document Format (PDF) to PostScript
converter (version 0.92)
pdfinfo (1)          - Portable Document Format (PDF) document information
extractor (version 0.92)
wvPDF (1)            - convert msword documents to PDF
gs (1)               - Ghostscript (PostScript and PDF language
interpreter and previewer)
pdftopbm (1)         - Portable Document Format (PDF) to Portable Bitmap
(PBM) converter (version 0.92)
pdfopt (1)           - Ghostscript PDF Optimizer
ps2ascii (1)         - Ghostscript translator from PostScript or PDF to
ASCII
pdf2ps (1)           - Ghostscript PDF to PostScript translator
gv (1x)              - a PostScript and PDF previewer
bwiese at liberty:~>

and "wvPDF" looks to be it... after a google search, I end up at:
http://wvware.sourceforge.net/

apparently, its the library and such used behind Abiword and Kword. =)
There are some crazy pdf tools for gnu/linux, I need to spend some time
and work with them... and TeX
(i love the in-ter-net) =)


|----- Original Message -----
|From: "Mike Hostetler" <thehaas at binary.net>
|To: <olug at olug.org>
|Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 4:50 PM
|Subject: Re: [olug] Word Doc/or rtf to pdf
|
|
|> On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 04:34:37PM -0500, Craig Wolf wrote:
|> > Anyone know a program that will do that in Linux (other than paying
|> > Adobe)?  I need to get a Word or RTF document into Adobe Pagemaker
6.5
|> > and I am having "issues" in making that happen. Ultimately this will
all
|> > be on a Win machine so don't shoot me...
|> > TIA!!
|>
|> I've messed with this, with a bit o' sucess . . .
|>
|> First off -- don't you mean "Abobe Acrobat" instead of "Pagemaker"?
|> Acrobat (as opposed to the free Acrobat Reader) only costs $30-$40, and
|> will render Word to PDF by hitting a button in Word.
|>
|> As far as free software goes, there isn't much.  Abiword on Linux has a
|> PDF Writer that almost works, but the Windows version doesn't have it. 
A
|> quick Google turned up this page:
|>
|> http://www.pathcom.com/~kujira/pdf7.htm
|>
|> Which has some info (do a search on RTF).  I dunno how well it would
work
|> on Window, though.
|>
|> Your best bet it to spend $40 on Acrobat.  On click, it's done.
|>
|> -- mikeh
|>
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