[DOC-SIG] Postscript vs. PDF

Paul Prescod papresco@technologist.com
Wed, 19 Nov 1997 12:42:27 -0500


Guido van Rossum wrote:
> BTW I believe that in order to create PDF one normally needs to buy an
> Adobe program.  Is there a free alternative?

PDFTEX. It came with my free miktex installation. Once it is correctly
installed, this should be all you need to do:

pdftex foo.tex

pdftex is another reason to keep TeX variant in the documentation loop.

 Paul Prescod

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