[KLUG Members] pdf v document attachments

[Jeremy Leonard]

Robert G. Brown wrote:

>On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 01:20:23 -0500, Andrew Thompson wrote:
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>>On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 06:39 -0500, Eric Beversluis wrote:
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>>>On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 21:59 -0500, Andrew Thompson wrote:
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>>>>OpenOffice, on the other hand, does generate PDFs. There's an extra
>>>>Export option under the File menu just for them. Since it can open
>>>>(almost?) all Word documents as well, and costs nothing but bandwidth to
>>>>acquire, I'd suggest that as your one-stop shop for DOC-to-PDF.
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>>>Yes, I know about OO exporting to pdf. My point was that most in
>>>academia are constrained to use Word or, in some cases, Word Perfect,
>>>which don't have this option.
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>>I suspected that might be the case, but that would only be if the
>>institution specifically forbade the use of anything else, which in my
>>opinion would be terrible policy, but not surprising.
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>In the hard sciences, standards have traditionally been created and 
>imposed by the editors or professional journals, not individual academics
>or departments. For a long time, these folks have been pretty adamant
>about format and file types suitable for submission, recently they have
>broadened the criteria to include some formats supported by commercial
>proprietary word processing systems. For a long time (at least 20 years)
>prior to that, they had insisted on submission in LaTEX or Postscript.
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>This meant that EVERY physicist, atronomer, etc. between about 1978 and
>2003 was either well-off (and paid someone to lay out their papers), or
>learned LaTEX. Let me tell you, most of these guys were not well-off!
>I was always surprised that LyX or something similar never caught on 
>with these folks, mostly because they thought learning LaTEX pretty
>simple (even recreational) after devling into the secrets of stars, 
>atom, etc...
>						Regards,
>						---> RGB <---
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For creating PDFs in Windows I've been using this project for quite a while.
http://sector7g.wurzel6.de/pdfcreator/index_en.htm

It creates a printer any windows program can print to and bam you have a 
PDF.