postscript

[yonas abraham]

brouwers roland lx wrote:
> Hello,
>
> What do I want to do?
> Print a worddoc(Microsoft or openoffice) to a printer that will produce
> a ps, which has to be transformed to a pdf file, which will be send by
> email, as an attachment.
>
> I am searching the internet for days now, to find a way to produce a
> postscript file, without printing to a printer. This file can be
> transformed to pdf with ps2pdf.
>
> Or is there another way?
>
> Actually I want to configure a small linux installation, where every
> workstation, on the network, can send a file to a specified directory.
> Some program will pick up everyone of these files, produce a pdf and
> send it to an emailaddress as an attachment. You could think of this
> installation as a black-box(in: anydoc out:email-with-pdf-attachment)
>
> Thank for help
>
> Roland Brouwers
> C.A.T. bvba
> Antwerp-Belgium
> roland at cat.be
>
>   
try wvware.sourceforge.net. I have used the wvPS to convert from word to 
postscript from the command line. The package comes with several 
utilities like wvPDF, wvLatex etc.

I hope this will help

-- 
Yonas Abraham, PhD
Registered Linux user number 407343               http://counter.li.org