Can I embed PDF driver in a Rev stack built for distribution?
John J. Theobald
mailjjt at bellsouth.net
Mon Jan 20 21:37:01 EST 2003
Jan Schenkel wrote:
> --- Alex Rice <alrice at ARCplanning.com> wrote:
>
>>On Sunday, January 19, 2003, at 12:24 AM, Ken Ray
>>wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I haven't, but you could take a look at
>>>
>>GhostScript
>>
>>>(www.ghostscript.com);
>>>they have APIs for Perl, and the code is under GNU
>>>
>>license, so it
>>
>>>should be
>>>possible.
>>>
>>Or PDFlib http://www.pdflib.com/ for a commercial
>>product. However,
>>either PDFlib or Ghostscript would require a lot of
>>scripting and
>>possibly of creating externals. Not the same as just
>>"print to pdf"
>>like you can do on OS X.
>>
>>Another way to approach it would be to make your
>>customers on Windows
>>to buy Adobe Acrobat, then they will have the PDF
>>Writer printer
>>driver, and they can print anything to pdf.
>>
>>Alex Rice
>>
>
> Another way to do this without forcing your customers
> to buy an entire Acrobat, is to install PrintToPDF on
> their machines if it's a Mac, or Win2PDF if it's a
> Windows box.
> Those 'printer drivers' should suffice for most
> purposes.
>
> PrintToPDF:
> http://www.jwwalker.com/pages/pdf.html
> Win2PDF:
> http://www.win2pdf.com/
>
> Hope this helped,
>
> Jan Schenkel.
>
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There is also ps2pdf, which needs to be compiled in ghostscript
(mentioned previously by Ken Ray). Have a look at:
http://stat.tamu.edu/doc/gs/Ps2pdf.htm
John J. Theobald
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