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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