Re: The PDF generator on the toolserver has implications for quality control on a per-chapter basis

adam hyde <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.wikimedia.textbook
Organization FLOSS Manuals
Message-ID <1195959884.6157.53.camel@resetera>
> 
> 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
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.