[CALUG] outputting PDF or PS from FOSS?

[Ken Jackson]

It has been my goal for some time to learn to use DocBook
<http://docbook.org/>.  There is support to transform the DocBook
format to almost any format I've heard of.  I see Ubuntu has
'docbook' and 'docbook-xsl-doc-pdf' packages that should give the
capability you seek.  

Try this command to see more:  apt-cache search ^docbook

There is also asciidoc <http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/> which
uses simple markup and can generate DocBook (or HTML).

-Ken Jackson

Sorry for the repeat, Ed.  I replied thinking it would go to the
group address.

Ed Browne writes:
 > 
 > 
 > Hi,
 >     I assumed this would be easy, but apparently
 > it's not - I need to turn in my final paper in
 > either PDF of Postscript format, but now I see
 > that OpenOffice does not produce either of those
 > two formats. The tools the university recommends
 > are either Windows-only or cost a fair bit.  The
 > only option I see as possible from my Ubuntu
 > distro is Tex (which can output both ps and pdf)
 > but I've always found Tex a bear to use (and I
 > ought to be spending my time finishing my
 > paper and not learning tex to compose my paper.)
 > 
 > Any suggestions?
 > 
 > Thanks very much - Ed