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May 22, 2007
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Posted on 05/22/2007 3:58:41 PM PDT by calcowgirl
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To: ShadowAce
Hi Ace:
I was already on this thread and noticed the ping. I have piggybacked another request for help with PDFs and Dynamic creation / Content Management.
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posted on
05/22/2007 9:51:33 PM PDT
by
Kevmo
(Duncan Hunter just needs one Rudy G Campaign Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVBtPIrEleM)
To: calcowgirl
You're probably not running Linux but for those who are, there is a really easy way to accomplish what you've asked. Simply print the file to a postscript file, then run ps2pdf against the file.
~ :) ls deleteme*
deleteme.ps
~ :) ps2pdf deleteme.ps
~ :) ls deleteme*
deleteme.pdf deleteme.ps
In the example above, I show the postscript file I created, then run ps2pdf against it, then show both files.
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posted on
05/23/2007 6:53:23 AM PDT
by
zeugma
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To: Kevmo; calcowgirl
The Foxit thing is good as a PDF EDITOR, as well as the Iceni InFix PDF Editor, which is superior. Both are about $100.IIRC, one of the reasons you'll find many free PDF printers and renderers and expensive editors is because of the way adobe licensed the format. Adobe charges companies that make products that can edit a pdf document, but does not for those that can just display or print.
This is why, if you have OpenOffice, you'll find an option that allows you to print whatever you are working on to PDF, but if you try to open and edit a PDF, it won't do it.
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posted on
05/23/2007 7:05:20 AM PDT
by
zeugma
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To: Still Thinking; Amerigomag
Amerigomag: Portable Document Format, designed in the early 1990s by Adobe Systems, is slowly replacing PostScript as the preferred format for saving and viewing generic documents.
Still Thinking: PDF stands for “Page description format”
Which is it? Does PDF stand for Portable Document Format or Page description format? I had known it all these years as Portable Doc format.
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posted on
05/23/2007 9:05:26 AM PDT
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Kevmo
(Duncan Hunter just needs one Rudy G Campaign Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVBtPIrEleM)
To: Kevmo
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posted on
05/23/2007 2:11:35 PM PDT
by
zeugma
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To: zeugma
"
if you have OpenOffice, you'll find an option that allows you to print whatever you are working on to PDF, but if you try to open and edit a PDF, it won't do it." Word Perfect will both open and create PDF. (or any other text or word processor format)
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posted on
05/23/2007 4:10:32 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Turning the general election into a second Democrat primary is not a winning strategy.)
To: Kevmo
PDF = Portable Document Format
PostScript = A page description language (PDL)
To: Amerigomag
Thanks. Can you help me on post #79?
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posted on
05/23/2007 4:59:21 PM PDT
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Kevmo
(Duncan Hunter just needs one Rudy G Campaign Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVBtPIrEleM)
To: editor-surveyor
Word Perfect will both open and create PDF. (or any other text or word processor format)Excellent. Didn't know that.
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posted on
05/23/2007 5:09:01 PM PDT
by
zeugma
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To: zeugma
I really miss WordPerfect—was forced through work to use MS office and really missed the old WordPerfect—probably wouldn’t recognize it anymore. :(
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