Pretty report printing

[Paul Wright]

In article <39F93665.BA3945E4 at ses.curtin.edu.au>,
Nick Bower  <bowern at ses.curtin.edu.au> wrote:
[someone else said:]
>> AFAIK, a tool called latex2pdf comes with the standard LaTeX
>> installation (at least the RPM I downloaded had it).  It should be
>> pretty easy to generate the LaTeX and then run latex2pdf on it.
>>
>
>i found this bitmapped fonts on my distros (mandrake and redhat), which
>is unacceptable.  I had more luck with dvi2pdfm which didn't rasterize
>the text.  do a search on freshmeat for it.

ps2pdf bitmaps the fonts (which I believe means you can't copy the text:
I tried this on Linux Acrobat reader and that's what happens). pdfLaTeX
doesn't: it generates PDFs directly from LaTeX source, and is generally
a Good Thing. It's possible to stay compatible with ordinary LaTeX, too,
in those places where you need to do something different for each, can
test whether you're running ordinary LaTex or pdfLaTeX.

Here are some useful URLs:
http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mac/dgp/tex_to_pdf.html
http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/makingWWWdocs.html

-- 
----- Paul Wright ------| 418 I'm a teapot
-paul.wright at pobox.com--| 
http://pobox.com/~pw201 |