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Nov 6th, 2002, 10:18 AM
#1
Thread Starter
Frenzied Member
Creating PDF Files
Is there any free PDF creators that anyone can recommend? I did have one that you could "print" to a PDF file, but it had a copyright at the bottom of each page. I mainly want it to make PDFs from my HTML files.
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Nov 6th, 2002, 10:34 AM
#2
I think I know the one you mean: Fineprint PDF-Factory
It's pretty cheap, I haven't found any (legally) free ones yet.
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Nov 6th, 2002, 11:45 AM
#3
have a look at this from
apache it appears to be close to what you want
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Nov 6th, 2002, 12:49 PM
#4
Thread Starter
Frenzied Member
Thanks guys. I think it was Fineprint PDF-Factory, and I think I also had GhostWritter (I think).
I'll try Fop and see what it's like.
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Nov 7th, 2002, 09:19 AM
#5
Fanatic Member
you could always create your file in LaTeX and then copy it to a *nix machine and to tex2pdf and that will do it for free 
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Nov 7th, 2002, 09:51 AM
#6
Monday Morning Lunatic
Dean, I thought it was pdflatex from Han the Thanh (no I can't be arsed to do the accents  ) ?
Or is there another one? I used to use dvips then ps2pdf, but not any more.
I refuse to tie my hands behind my back and hear somebody say "Bend Over, Boy, Because You Have It Coming To You".
-- Linus Torvalds
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Nov 7th, 2002, 09:58 AM
#7
Fanatic Member
could be, but i know that at uni we got pdf
actually just checked on our main server at uni, the command is texi2pdf, so yeah must be possible
Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen a angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.
-- Linus Torvalds
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Nov 7th, 2002, 10:01 AM
#8
Monday Morning Lunatic
Ahhh. That's different. Texi isn't strictly TeX, I don't think, but they're definitely related.
*checks*
Yeah, I have texi2pdf as well.
I refuse to tie my hands behind my back and hear somebody say "Bend Over, Boy, Because You Have It Coming To You".
-- Linus Torvalds
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Nov 7th, 2002, 10:03 AM
#9
Fanatic Member
sure it will do the same job
Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen a angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.
-- Linus Torvalds
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Nov 7th, 2002, 10:06 AM
#10
Monday Morning Lunatic
Just checked again. Different but similar syntax.
Texinfo seems more for online documentation than typesetting, from what I've seen of its use.
Although I'd say use whichever one did what you want, I need to learn it because it's good for autogenerating web pages of documents.
I refuse to tie my hands behind my back and hear somebody say "Bend Over, Boy, Because You Have It Coming To You".
-- Linus Torvalds
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Nov 7th, 2002, 10:09 AM
#11
Fanatic Member
i will have a look through last years course notes and see what i can find for you
Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen a angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.
-- Linus Torvalds
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Nov 7th, 2002, 10:14 AM
#12
Fanatic Member
right, wasn't that hard in the end to find it,
but the command to generate PDF documents from LaTeX is
pdflatex mydoc.tex
where mydoc is the name of your LaTeX file
any good for you Mike ?
Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen a angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.
-- Linus Torvalds
[ Galahtech.com] | [ My Site] | [ Fishsponge] | [ UnixForum.co.uk]
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Nov 7th, 2002, 10:18 AM
#13
Monday Morning Lunatic
Been using LaTeX for years now anyway  It was texinfo I was more concerned about, but don't worry. When I have time I'm sure there's ample documentation available.
Cheers anyway.
I refuse to tie my hands behind my back and hear somebody say "Bend Over, Boy, Because You Have It Coming To You".
-- Linus Torvalds
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Nov 7th, 2002, 10:20 AM
#14
Fanatic Member
Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen a angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.
-- Linus Torvalds
[ Galahtech.com] | [ My Site] | [ Fishsponge] | [ UnixForum.co.uk]
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Nov 7th, 2002, 12:45 PM
#15
So Unbanned
Warez version of acrobat.
That's technically free.
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Nov 7th, 2002, 02:32 PM
#16
Thread Starter
Frenzied Member
Heh I did think about it, I'm trying FinePrint because I couldn't get Fop to work.
And I did have Linux (RedHat and Mandrake) on my PC, but I didn't really like the way they looked. The fonts seemed a bit dodgy so I went back to windows. So I can't use tex2pdf unfortunately.
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Nov 8th, 2002, 10:09 PM
#17
Addicted Member
I think somewhere on the abode website you could upload files and it turns em into pdf for you (maybe it was some other site but I remember something like that)
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Nov 9th, 2002, 01:12 PM
#18
Thread Starter
Frenzied Member
Yeah I heard about that in a mag. I think there was a limit of 5 files or something.
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Nov 11th, 2002, 04:28 AM
#19
Here's a prog
with source. In in c# so you'll need the dot net framework.
I tried it out and it works fine, except only with txt files
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Nov 11th, 2002, 05:56 AM
#20
Thread Starter
Frenzied Member
Thanks, but I'm on Win98, so the .NET framework doesn't work does it?
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Nov 11th, 2002, 05:58 AM
#21
Monday Morning Lunatic
Nope, sadly 
You might be able to use libpdf, though. Or Ghostscript.
I refuse to tie my hands behind my back and hear somebody say "Bend Over, Boy, Because You Have It Coming To You".
-- Linus Torvalds
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Nov 11th, 2002, 06:02 AM
#22
on the contrary I've got Win98 and I've just started messing
with c#
I downloaded the .NET framework redistributables (20megs)
and a free program sharp develop beta version for developing.
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Nov 11th, 2002, 06:04 AM
#23
Monday Morning Lunatic
Maybe just the IDE doesn't run on 98 then
I refuse to tie my hands behind my back and hear somebody say "Bend Over, Boy, Because You Have It Coming To You".
-- Linus Torvalds
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Nov 11th, 2002, 06:08 AM
#24
Well I know for a fact Visual Studio .net won't work.
and the SDK install isn't design with 98 in mind and will throw
up errors when you try to install, but there are ways around it
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Nov 11th, 2002, 09:10 AM
#25
just did a google search for something different, but the sponsored advert was a FREE pdf writer (it just shows a sponsors web site when you run it)
http://site4.pdf995.com/download.html
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Nov 11th, 2002, 10:19 AM
#26
Thread Starter
Frenzied Member
I downloaded the SDK before and it wouldn't run the installer on 98. I thought compiled binaries could run, but you couldn't develop apps.
Thanks for the link si, I take a look.
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