Can I embed PDF driver in a Rev stack built for distribution?

[Jan Schenkel]

--- 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.

=====
"As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time."  (La Rochefoucauld)

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