Ghostscript has
become the default Linux PDF reader over time, but its interface is a bit more clunky than
Adobe??™s own product.
Considering that PDF is a slight variation on the UNIX/Linux PostScript print standard,
it??™s a little surprising that free, open source PDF creation tools have not been forthcoming.
The exceptions are the TeX publishing tool and a pstopdf shell utility that did not produce
a quality transformation from plain PostScript (ps) to PDF. You can indeed make PDF
files with TeX, but this publishing behemoth is notoriously difficult to learn and operate.
Making PDF documents got a whole lot easier with OpenOffice.org v1.1. Finally, there
was an easy-to-use method of creating good-looking PDF documents in Linux. All you
need to do to create a PDF is click the PDF Export tool on your default toolbar.
Suppose you have a holiday letter with graphics that you send out to friends and family
every year. You can easily create a PDF version right in OpenOffice.org that you can send
to your email buddies or put on your personal website by doing the following:
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