OT: about PDF Converter-Convert2PDF

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, Stephen Liu wrote:

> Hi wwp and Alex,
>
>>> If it's an html document can't you open it with OpenOffice and
>>> export it directly as a PDF? Perhaps you do not have access to
>>> OpenOffice though, if not nevermind that but it is on the
>>> installation media as well as the repos.
>
> I have OOffice running on this FC5_64 box.  I tried before opening the
> .html file and save it again as .pdf.  However the format on the opened
> document became disorder difficult to read if without injecting further
> effort to rearrange it.
>
>> Or html2ps (http://user.it.uu.se/~jan/html2psug.html) then ps2pdf
>> (ghostscript-8.15.2-1.1 here). That's more common software (compared
>> to the
>> one Stephen is trying to install). There are ways to convert to pdf,
>> anyway.
>
> I'm doing in this way printing the web document as .ps file and convert
> it to .pdf file again.  However both the .ps and .pdf documents created
> in this way can't be futher processed with copy/paste commands.

Might also google for cups-pdf.  It creates a CUPS queue that prints to a 
PDF file.  I don't know if you can copy/paste with the output, though.

>
> B.R.
> SL
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