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Also, there's ascii2pdf. (<a  rel="nofollow" href="http://bulldog.tzo.org/ascii2pdf/ascii2pdf.html";>http://bulldog.tzo.org/ascii2pdf/ascii2pdf.html</a>),
which transforms simple text to PDFs.  It requires PDF::Create perl module.

&gt; -----Original Message-----
&gt; From: Grady Harris [<a  rel="nofollow" href="mailto:gharri2";>mailto:gharri2</a> at emory.edu]
&gt; Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 6:00 PM
&gt; To: ale at ale.org
&gt; Subject: [ale] Re: Ale Digest, Vol 7, Issue 10
&gt; 
&gt; 
&gt; To tell the truth, I've only done enough LaTeX by hand to 
&gt; figure out what the
&gt; references to previous means meant, &amp; to be able to discuss it with a
&gt; mathematician buddy who is helping me with a transcription 
&gt; where I'm using
&gt; MathML, which he hadn't heard of.
&gt; 
&gt; For PDFs, I've been using XSL-FO. The literature &amp; 
&gt; implementations seem kind of
&gt; thin for a spec that's been a full recommendation some three 
&gt; years (though I
&gt; will probably figure that one out soon), but the mailing 
&gt; lists are active,
&gt; which is one of the reasons I coveted a gmail account--thank 
&gt; you, Sergio.
&gt; 
&gt; PDFs are the big thing where I work, in a medical library--so 
&gt; far, OpenOffice
&gt; has been about the only way to produce them from original 
&gt; work that I can
&gt; persuade somebody else to use (co-workers &amp; patrons have an 
&gt; entirely reasonable
&gt; aversion to visible mark-up). Any suggestions for other 
&gt; Free/Open Source ways to
&gt; generate PDFs that do not involve a text editor?
&gt; 
&gt; Grady Harris
&gt; 
&gt; Quoting ale-request at ale.org:
&gt; &gt; Message: 12
&gt; &gt; Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 14:44:51 -0500 (EST)
&gt; &gt; From: John Mills &lt;johnmills at speakeasy.net&gt;
&gt; &gt; Subject: Re: [ale] Q: PDFing hyperlinks
&gt; &gt; To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts &lt;ale at ale.org&gt;
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt; Grady -
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt; Thanks. Looks promising. I'll file a battle report. Since I have
&gt; &gt; StarOffice in Linux and OO in M$Win, I'll see where/if it works.
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt; I have created bookmarked, indexed, hyperlinked PDFs using a set of
&gt; &gt; [someone else's] LaTeX macros and Adobe's Distiller - 
&gt; there, run in SunOS.
&gt; &gt; I must say it worked and the results were very good, but 
&gt; hand-built LaTeX
&gt; &gt; is a *$^&amp;%!! of an expensive way to write!
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt; Aside - _When_ will Adobe release the Distiller for Linux??
&gt; &gt;
&gt; 
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