writing pdfs

[Chris]

On Friday 10 October 2003 07:31 am, William O'Higgins wrote:
> I have grown tired of using MS Word as my standard document output
> format.  I haven't gotten OpenOffice to work under FreeBSD (and it isn't
> my favourite tool by a long shot) and I am most happy generating text in
> vi.  PDF is eminently portable, and I think that it would suit my
> purposes nicely.
>
> I had some thoughts about generating PDFs, but I was hoping for advice
> about which tools to use.  Should I just learn how to mark up a text
> page manually (I write HTML almost as quickly as plain text)?  Should I
> learn TeX or some variant and translate it?  I hear that PHP has some
> excellent PDF-generation tools; should I write up a command-line
> interpreter myself?  Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> I did a bit of searching, but I didn't find any real *advice* on what
> process to use, and most of the tools that I found are for viewing PDFs,
> not writing them.
>
> Thanks.

OppenOffice.Org (/usr/ports/editors/openoffice  & 
/usr/ports/editors/openoffice-devel)

Is a suite that gets you as close to the MS Office package as can be. In 
addition, you CAN create PDF's

Just my 2 pennies

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Best regards,
                 Chris
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