Re: [SLUG] Help with editing a PS file.

From: Mike Manchester (mchester@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Aug 06 2001 - 14:49:07 EDT


Norb wrote:

> Mike Manchester wrote:
> >
> > OK, then let me rephrase my question. I have a time shee which I fill out on the
> > web and I can print this to a PDF file. But I have some scanned attachments that I
> > need to attach to the PDF file. How can I do this? It would be easy if Adobe had
> > Acrobat for Linux, but we all now the answer to that question:)
> >
> > Any suggestions, not involving Windows would be appreciated.
> >
> > Mike M.
> >
>
> Use the following tools: they should work:
>
> 1) Save the image attachments as .ps (.eps) files. This can be done by
> GIMP. Then, go to the net and grab yourself a tool called ps2pdf. That
> should give you the solution you need.
>
> http://stat.tamu.edu/doc/gs/Ps2pdf.htm
>
> Note that there are a wide range of format2format tools that you can
> find on the web. Some of them are more useful that other for various
> reasons, including the flexibility of the lanuage you are working with
> (ie. XML as opposed to HTML), and the stage of developement of the tool
> (for example, docbook2html is well developed, but html2pdf is not, and
> html2docbook would be almost impossible to do correctly).
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Norb
>
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Thanks Norb;
I'll give that a shot.
Mike M.

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