[Info-vax] text to pdf converter for vms 8.3

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <49F11BB5.9EA73484 at spam.comcast.net>,
	David J Dachtera <djesys.no at spam.comcast.net> writes:
> "Craig A. Berry" wrote:
>> 
>> Jeremy Begg wrote:
>> > Hi Chuck,
>> >
>> > Chuck Aaron wrote:
>> >> Would anyone have a recommendation for
>> >> a text to pdf converter that will
>> >> run on vms 8.3?
>> >>
>> >> thanks,
>> >> chuck
>> >
>> > In addition to the suggestions you've already received, have a look at
>> > SANFACE software's set of products (all written in Perl).
>> > http://www.sanface.com/
>> 
>> This is a question that comes up with some frequency, and the solutions
>> range from custom print symbionts to Ghostscript to the SANFACE product
>> to various and sundry little C programs that directly convert text to
>> PDF. One of the latter that's worked well for me is available here:
>> 
>> http://eisner.decus.org/~berry_c/TEXT2PDF.ZIP
> 
> How does one make the output useful?
> 
> I transferred the output file to a PC, but Adobe Reader choked on it, no
> matter how I sent it (Binary or ASCII - didn't matter). It says he file
> is damaged and cannot be repaired.
> 
> Any ideas?

I know people here don't want to hear this but the way I make PDF's is
to just print them (to a PDF is and available option) using the KDE
desktop installed on either a Linux box or a BSD box.  You could always
install Virtual Box on a PC and run it there if you didn't have or want
to devote a box to Unix.

bill

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