Re: Converting .abw files to .pdf

On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Hubert Figuiere wrote:

> Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 20:42:33 -0500
> From: Hubert Figuiere <hfiguiere@teaser.fr>
> To: Kelly <kelly@kena.net>
> Cc: abiword-user@abisource.com
> Subject: Re: Converting .abw files to .pdf
>
>
> On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 18:35 -0800, Kelly wrote:
> > This is my system: Libranet GNU/Linux (100% Debian compatible)
> > version
> > 2.8 (updated using apt-get). Abiword is version 2.0.1. For a
> > windows
> > manager I use either Gnome version 2.4 or IceWM (unknown version).
> >
>
> 2.0.1 is really old. I recommend getting 2.2.1.
>
> To convert a document to PDF, there are 2 solution. Print to PDF, with
> the GNOME build you have the option in the print dialog.
> Or, print to a PostScript file (print to a file in the print dialog) and
> convert it to PDF using the free ps2pdf that comes with ghostscript and
> has good chances to come with your system. (command line tool).

It is a bit more obscure but you could also export to LaTeX and then use
texpdf (or was it latexpdf) and convert directly to PDF while still
preserving hyperlinks. (I think I might need to tweak the export format
of the hyperlinks, but I haven't had time to look at it).

Last time I tried this (around Abiword 2.0) I didn't quite manage to PDF
with hyperlinks but I'm sure if I try harder I'll be able to get it to
work. Unfortunately the LaTeX exporter does not yet support all the
current features like footnotes and endnotes, but if I can get PDFs
with hyperlinks I'll be well pleased.

I'm still waiting for someone really adventurous and knowledgable about
all things XML to get PDF using the XSL-FO exported by abiword.

If you can get a Gnome-print enabled version of Abiword as Hubert has
recommened that is by far the best option though.

Sincerely

Alan Horkan
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Received on Fri Dec 10 03:13:09 2004