easy way of creating pdf files?

[dunstq]

I was wondering if there is an easy way of sending data to a pdf printer like (in Windows) Acrobat Distiller or PDF creator. The inbuilt "export to pdf" option of OpenOffice is great - I'd need that in other applications as well...

[imdeemvp]

im not sure if this will be your answer but there is a linux pdf downlaod here, use platform to selet linux: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

[doctormetal]

Originally Posted by dunstq

I was wondering if there is an easy way of sending data to a pdf printer like (in Windows) Acrobat Distiller or PDF creator. The inbuilt "export to pdf" option of OpenOffice is great - I'd need that in other applications as well...

A lot of programs have the option to print to a postscript file. You can use the ps2pdf command, which is part of the ghostscript distribution, to convert that postscript file to a pdf file.

It is not a one click option like the export to pdf function, but it works.

[GreyGeek]

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[zen]

Some apps like gedit allow you to print directly to a pdf file.

[dunstq]

Well, that's all not what I had in mind, but thanks anyway. ps2pdf is the closest thing, though. I guess I'll have to fiddle with it.

[Jman]

Check out CUPS-PDF. I haven't found a Fedora package, but the Red Ha 9 one should work.

[dunstq]

Thanks a lot, Jman! Now I am running Linux for a mere week and it works better than any Windows installation ever that I had to suffer!!

[imdeemvp]

great tool indeed i did not know it existed.