On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 23:46:11 +0000, Tom Anderson
wrote in :
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Dr Ivan D. Reid wrote:

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 18:11:00 +0000, David Bradley
wrote in :

Converting the document into HTML format has resulted in the
presentation of many of the tables into a most unsatisfactory format.
They are corrupted so badly that the effort to manually tidy it all up
would be extensive. Perhaps converting to PDF format might be a
possibility, but I don't have that software.

I do the following:
a) Print to a PostScript printer and select "print to file".
b) In cygwin or Linux use ps2pdf13 to convert the PostScript to .pdf.

Only works if you have a UNIX-alike system to play with, of course.

You can do (b) with Ghostscript, which runs natively (ie without Cygwin)
on Windows, too; you just feed it the PostScript file and tell it to use
pdf as its output device (i forget the exact flags, but it's pretty
straightforward).

That's entirely reasonable, as the family of ps2pdf converters
are just frontends for ghostscript.

Alternatively, use a Mac, where you can print straight to PDF without any
fancy software - or at least, any fancy software other than OS X!

Which is, of course, a UNIX-alike. :-)

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