UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi their,

I am trying to find out if there is a way that when a report is generated it can be converted to a PDF or generated as a PFD.

What is the original document format?
OpenOffice.org converts most of the common word processor formats to PDF.

For those wanting a programmatic approach, there are a variety of processors available that can output PDF. LaTeX and docBook are examples.

What I am looking for is a unix command that will convert a unix text file to a pdf.

There is a program called txt2pdf which is available from Sanface Software.

It runs on any system with PERL installed, and they have binary versions for Windows, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Linux, Mac OS X.

My experience has been using a binary version on Windows (a corporate decision, not mine ) and found it pretty good.

The config files allow a lot of customisation in pdf paper sizes, formats, compression and so on, and as such it lends itself very well to scripted solutions.

Hope this is of help to you!

Iain

Thanks. I would work onit and let you know how it work out.