On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 10:37:11PM +0530, Nikhil Joshi wrote:
- LUG meet on 12 Jan. 2003 @ VJTI
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We had done the thing in Microsoft Word format ( I used Star Office while my colleagues Microsoft Office )
If you want to allege that either of these tools are bad at document creation, then I don't agree with you. MS Word has a really really wonderful document model just as any self-respecting word processor should have, and one can indeed make good reports in it.
I researched a little and found out that groff and Latex are great doc formatting (typesetting ?) tools.
Go for LaTeX ... look for a file called "lshort2e" ... the short introduction to LaTeX edition 2.
If you really feel adventurous, try Docbook-XML :-) Then you can publish your documents in any format - LaTeX, ps, PDF, HTML, RTF, text, etc.
I create (with the help of dvips and ps2pdf) looks very crappy in acrobat reader. Ghostview however displays the thing quite well. Is this normal?
Use pdflatex.
Has anyone tried Latex and stuff ?
All sane people publish their reports, papers, articles etc using LaTeX or related tools. Don't worry, you are on the right track! :-)
Most probably we would print the project on a Windows machine ( i guess very few DTP vendors have Linux as of yet :( ). One of my friends told me that pdf files do not print quite well as compared with Microsoft Word
Simply not true. PDF and ps files can print anywhere ... that's what they are meant for! In fact, the ".prn" file created for most printers is in fact PostScript, and can be renamed to ".ps"
Sameer.