So I have a nice copy of my resume in PS, thanks to Openoffice and a certain OS's printer drivers. But when I convert the PS to PDF in Linux (gs 5.10), I get awful output -- Type 3 fonts in the PDF. Why? Any way to fix?
And the workaround seems to be to use gsview on the afore-unmentioned OS and print to PDF -- except the pdfwrite device does not exist. Why? gsview and gs on the unmentionable OS (yeah ok, XP) are the latest versions, downloaded today.
On Nov 14, 2002 at 02:13, Satya wrote:
OS and print to PDF -- except the pdfwrite device does not exist. Why?
Found it. It's buried in the Convert dialog, not the Print dialog as all the webpages claim. (The ini file says you can't use pdfwrite on a pipe.)
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 02:13:42 -0800 (PST) Satya wrote:
So I have a nice copy of my resume in PS, thanks to Openoffice and a certain OS's printer drivers. But when I convert the PS to PDF in Linux (gs 5.10), I get awful output -- Type 3 fonts in the PDF. Why? Any way to fix?
I don't know why that happens but such documents print correctly, IIRC.
Erm... may I suggest redoing your Resume in LaTeX? You can use the pdflatex utility that comes with tetex to directly generate PDF.
On Nov 14, 2002 at 16:15, Tahir Hashmi wrote:
Erm... may I suggest redoing your Resume in LaTeX? You can use the pdflatex utility that comes with tetex to directly generate PDF.
That's what I have been doing. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get LaTeX to stop producing a huge left margin.
(So now I use OpenOffice and gs on XP, then FTP the results to wherever they should go. My resume looks much better now -- and no, I haven't updated the copy in the link below.)
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:36:12 -0800 (PST) Satya wrote:
On Nov 14, 2002 at 16:15, Tahir Hashmi wrote:
Erm... may I suggest redoing your Resume in LaTeX? You can use the pdflatex utility that comes with tetex to directly generate PDF.
That's what I have been doing. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get LaTeX to stop producing a huge left margin.
Aah! That bugs. Here's what you do in the _preamble_:
% Decrease left margin by 1/2" \addtolength{\hoffset}{-0.5in}
%Increase text width by 1" so that the tight margin is also decreased by 1/2" \addtolength{\textwidth}{1in}
There's a complete description of various dimensions that affect page layout on Page 77 of _The_Not_So_Short_Introduction_to_LaTeX2e_ http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/lshort/lshort.pdf
BTW, I'd strongly recommend this Introduction to anyone interested in trying out LaTeX.
HTH.
On Nov 15, 2002 at 09:21, Tahir Hashmi wrote:
% Decrease left margin by 1/2" \addtolength{\hoffset}{-0.5in}
D'oh! I was only looking at the numbered dimensions in lshort.
Thanks, my resume is back on Linux.
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 14:06:11 +0530 Amol Hatwar wrote:
I use XML and XSLT to get the formats I need. I can do a .doc .pdf .html.rtf (you name it).
Whoa? Amazing! 2 Questions:
1) Are you referring to the native OOo format? 2) Do you use a word processor or a document processor (LaTeX)?
- Are you referring to the native OOo format?
Que?
- Do you use a word processor or a document processor (LaTeX)?
Que? I use Emacs with the SGML major-mode to edit the XML, make a stylesheet in XSLT for getting the required format and use xalan/sablotron sometimes even xt for getting the XML transformed.
Happy hacking!
Amol Hatwar.
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:47:47 +0530 Amol Hatwar wrote:
Que? I use Emacs with the SGML major-mode to edit the XML, make a stylesheet in XSLT for getting the required format and use xalan/sablotron sometimes even xt for getting the XML transformed.
Trevor, catch him for a seminar on Advanced Document Preparation! :p
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 03:47:47PM +0530, Amol Hatwar wrote:
Que? I use Emacs with the SGML major-mode to edit the XML, make a stylesheet in XSLT for getting the required format and use xalan/sablotron sometimes even xt for getting the XML transformed.
You are my man! Can I see the XSL?
Sameer.
----- Original Message ----- From: Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe sameerds@it.iitb.ac.in To: linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2002 3:47 PM Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] PS to PDF: argh!
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 03:47:47PM +0530, Amol Hatwar wrote:
Que? I use Emacs with the SGML major-mode to edit the XML, make a
stylesheet
in XSLT for getting the required format and use xalan/sablotron
sometimes
even xt for getting the XML transformed.
You are my man! Can I see the XSL?
Show me the sample XML, the DTD and the kind of output you want. XSLT drives me nuts, so it will be sometime before I can get back to you with that.
If you are impatient check out DocBook XML. Gentoo's GuideBook is a good place to start.
Warm wishes,
Amol Hatwar.
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 09:22:40PM +0530, Amol Hatwar wrote:
You are my man! Can I see the XSL?
Show me the sample XML, the DTD and the kind of output you want. XSLT drives me nuts, so it will be sometime before I can get back to you with that.
I am just trying to hack the XSL used for creating PDF files out of docbook-slides-xml ... but tend to get lost in all the magic they are doing. So I thought looking at your XSL will help me jumpstart into XSL fundaes ...
If you are impatient check out DocBook XML. Gentoo's GuideBook is a good place to start.
I love Docbook ... take a look at http://db.ilug-bom.org.in/Documentation/NGL/
It was originally written in Docbook SGML, but I intend to start using XML the next time I get around to trying to finish that thing.
Sameer.
I am just trying to hack the XSL used for creating PDF files out of docbook-slides-xml ... but tend to get lost in all the magic they are doing. So I thought looking at your XSL will help me jumpstart into XSL fundaes ...
An honest confession here... I get lost into my own XSL stylesheets too. But I'll be glad to help you for pinning your XSL beast down.
Regards,
Amol Hatwar.
Hi Luggers,
I need some comprehensive tutorials for XML & XSL. Can somebody post the URLs for tar/gz downloads of the tutorials.
Amol's reply to the "PS to PDF: argh!" thread has got me really interested in XML :-)
tata Kapil Karekar email: kapil_karekar@vsnl.net kapil_karekar@hotmail.com
i have a cd ... collect it
----- Original Message ----- From: "Kapil Karekar" kapil_karekar@vsnl.net To: linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2002 10:05 PM Subject: [ILUG-BOM] XML - XSL
Hi Luggers,
I need some comprehensive tutorials for XML & XSL. Can somebody post the URLs for tar/gz downloads of the tutorials.
Amol's reply to the "PS to PDF: argh!" thread has got me really interested in XML :-)
tata Kapil Karekar email: kapil_karekar@vsnl.net kapil_karekar@hotmail.com
Harsh R Busa wrote:
I have a cd ... collect it
----- Original Message ----- From: "Kapil Karekar" kapil_karekar@vsnl.net mailto:kapil_karekar@vsnl.net To: linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in mailto:linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in
Hi Luggers,
I need some comprehensive tutorials for XML & XSL. Can somebody post the URLs for tar/gz downloads of the tutorials.
Kapil Karekar email: kapil_karekar@vsnl.net mailto:kapil_karekar@vsnl.net
check out the IBM developerworks site www.ibm.com/developerworks http://www.ibm.com/developerworks . It has some good tutorials.
--> Vinayak Hegde
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 10:05:44PM +0530, Kapil Karekar wrote:
I need some comprehensive tutorials for XML & XSL. Can somebody post the URLs for tar/gz downloads of the tutorials.
Are you familiar with Docbook? Start using that ... will make you comfortable with most basic things about Markup Languages before you take XML head-on!
Get XEmacs21 (no, I don't use GNU-Emacs) and the psgml mode on that.
Check out http://www.w3.org/XML/ for information on XML.
Sameer.
Hi Luggers,
I need some comprehensive tutorials for XML & XSL. Can somebody post the URLs for tar/gz downloads of the tutorials.
Amol's reply to the "PS to PDF: argh!" thread has got me really interested in XML :-)
I'll assume you mean to say XML in publishing or document production. - DocBook XML is a good standard to follow. But its too vast (too many tags). - GuideBook claims to be minimalist. - You can make your own schema as well (thats what XML's for). - There are even DTDs and stylesheets for resumes.
If you do your own thing you must take care to capture enough imformation about the document so that you can manipulate it in multiple ways. Compare this with a picture you take... only if its in a good resolution you can put it to print... alter it and make it web-ready. If you have a low-res picture you can't do much with it, except put it back on the Web again.
Warm wishes,
Amol Hatwar.
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