[R-390] Y2K Reprinting

[Richard Loken]

On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Mark Huss wrote:

> Pencil) developed by DEC for the U.S. Government for file transfer. PDF
> has replaced it for the most part. Problem is that PDF is copyrighted,
> so you have to pay to generate them. And that I do not really have.

No you don't.  I generate PDF files almost daily by creating them out
of PostScript documents with GhostScript which is available free.  In my
case I use the emacs text editor to create a troff source document which
I run through groff and then through ghostscript only if I have to send it
to somebody else or post it on a web site.

Personally I don't like word processors like MS Word because they make it
hard for me to radically change the layout of a document , a job that is
fairly easy with a nice old text processor like troff or TeX.

In this case however, the author has chose to create the documents in Word
and the source files should stay in Word format, you can translate into
something else for distribution but not for editing.

Come to that, I like getting my documents in PostScript because I am just
going to print it anyway.

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