Portable Document Format (*.pdf)

[gremlin]

<br>One improvement which I think would definitely enhance this programme is support for outputting files as PDF files. Word perfect and another small office suite can do this already. There is even a published api. However, I am not a C/C++ developer as such so I wouldn't even know where to begin.<br><br>What do you think guys?<br><br>#gremlin

[admin]

Personally I think that a stand-alone "RTF to PDF" convertor would be the best solution.

[BrozNetworks]

I think that this is a great idea, BUT with Atlantis being developed with Borland Delphi, i don't know how this would come about.

[Andrey_Zakharchuk]

Adobe PDF Writer also can solve this problem.<br><br>Best regards,<br>Andrey.

[samovar]

Alan, Delphi can use any functions exposed by Windows DLLs no matter what language the latter were written in.  As long as the API is documented, you can use it in Delphi. <br><br>However,  everybody, the reason many of us like Atlantis is that it gets the job done without being bloated.  (My personal wish is for tables, headers, and footers, but I'll happily live without them rather than make our friends at Rising Sun recreate Word.)  I like the idea of a stand-alone converter, suggested in another post.<br>

<br>I think that this is a great idea, BUT with Atlantis being developed with Borland Delphi, i don't know how this would come about.<br>

[JPL]

Hi:<br><br>I remember a little freeware I saw some months ago. Sadly I don't remember the name, but at least I can depict his way of doing... You can apply the same procedure to get PDF files from Atlantis documents...<br>IIRC, it was using a printer driver capable of outputting postcript files and using it with the 'Print to file' option. This way you get a postcript file when you print using this 'printer' (from Atlantis or some other program)<br><br>The utility I've talked about was monitorizing for the existence of this file and then it launchs automatically a converter (ps2pdf.exe, you can found it without much difficulty out there I suppose.)<br><br>You can make the same manually and got a nice PDF from the intermediate PS file...<br><br>Hope this helps, and if I can manage to find again the URL, I'll post there...<br><br>Regards<br>

[Andrey_Zakharchuk]

Adobe PDF Writer mentioned above just a printer driver that can be easily installed as Windows printing device.<br><br>Just print Atalntis (or any other application) document with this printer and you'll get PDF. So, there is not sense make several conversions <br>(RTF->PS->PDF).<br><br>Best regards,<br>Andrey.<br>

[Wannes]

Adobe PDF Writer can be downloaded from several shareware sites; it requires an Adobe Acrobat licence key to be operational, so it seems.<br><br>"Free PDF", created by the Zipguy, is a free alternative. It can be downloaded at http://www.webxd.com/zipguy/frpdf.htm. <br>It's not exactly a joy to set up: three different programs from three different sources need to be downloaded, installed and carefully configured. The goal is to have them work together as an alternative windows printer. The Zipguy's website is so loaded with warnings, diagrams and last-minute-changes, that I decided to look for something a bit more straightforward first.<br><br>My suggestion is to try "Easy PDF" instead (by Visage Software, http://www.visagesoft.com/easypdf, trial version available, registration 30$). <br>I have been using it for a couple of days now, and so far it does a perfect job at converting my Atlantis-made RTF files. Hypertext/bookmarks and outline are supported. <br><br>It is no match to Adobe Acrobat, I am sure: MS Word files e.g. are not fully supported. But then again, who needs Word if you have Atlantis?

[Max_Quordlepleen]

Thanks for the tip about Easy PDF, Wannes. One of the things that I still use my WordPerfect 9 for is its publish to PDF feature, but that doesn't support live hyperlinks. $30 US for a program that works with Atlantis sounds like quite a good deal. Although, if the is thread gets long enough, maybe we will be able to convince the Atlantis powers-that-be to at least consider a PDF utility.

[Van]

I thought that PDF format is proprietary to Adobe, that you cannot have any legal freeware of making PDF docs. ::)<br><br>The full program (not just the free Acrobat Reader) is quite expensive, it is possible to get it though by purchasing a scanner, or something that has Acrobat bundled with it. The slightly higher end Umax business scanners (Umax Astra 2400) have this bundle.<br><br>You can than choose as a printer PDF printer and all apps print out into PDF file no problem. It is not a real paper printout of course, that is, you don't need any hardware printer.<br>Just a thought<br>Van

[JP_FONTAINE]

Those who want PDF documents can see at "www.bigfoot.com/~sebsauvage" a very detailed processus on how to get a PDF file from anything you can print (it's in french language).

[Chev-h]

<br>Search for PDFMAIL at url http://www.pdfmail.com/<br><br>It has advertisment in free version but run fine.<br>It looks like a printer driver.

[blork]

If you have a postscript printer and Acrobat Distiller (requires a license) all you have to do is print the document (any format) to a file. Then run the resulting PostScript file through Distiller.

[Max_Quordlepleen]

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<br>Thanks for the tip about Easy PDF, Wannes. $30 US for a program that works with Atlantis sounds like quite a good deal.

<br><br>I just wanted to add that I purchased EasyPDF last week, and it is very good. It really is well worth the money if anyone is looking for a cheaper alternative to the full Adobe product. Now that I have Easy PDF, I am doing all my major work in Atlantis and converting to PDF from there. Just to repeat Wannes' advice<br>http://www.visagesoft.com/easypdf

[chico]

<br>[quote author=samovar link=board=General&num=984854797&start=0#4 date=03/27/01 at 12:34:43]<br>(My personal wish is for tables, headers, and footers, but I'll happily live without them rather than make our friends at Rising Sun recreate Word.)<br><br>Please, do not recreate the word, one is enough!

[bits]

Try pdf995 at www.pdf995.com. Unlimited trial version avialable (with a startup nag screen) - or register it for $9.95 (suprise). It installs as a print drive and works great. If you want hyperlinks and such, download pdfedit995 - same deal.