Re: The PDF generator on the toolserver has implications for quality control on a per-chapter basis
adam hyde <[email protected]>
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| Organization | FLOSS Manuals |
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> > By far and away the current best "free" method of generating a PDF file > is to import the text into Open Office, formatting the content to be > much more book-like, and exporting the PDF file. Acrobat Pro certainly > does better (Adobe wrote the spec, so they understand it better), but as > you said, not everybody on Wikibooks can afford that software. > I think htmldoc and scribus are two other interesting ways to export to PDF. htmldoc is great for converting HTML -> PDF, either on the commandline or with a GUI. Scribus is more for taking content and formatting it for publication ala Desktop Publishing. Scribus does a great job of exporting to PDF. htmldoc and scribus are both GPL adam > -- Robert Horning > > _______________________________________________ > Textbook-l mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/textbook-l -- Adam Hyde FLOSS Manuals http://www.flossmanuals.net