Fwd: [Swftools-common] All2PDF tool

[Chris Pugh]

I think you meant to post this to the list Cris, not just me, yes?  I
have forwarded it on for you.

BTW,  if you don't mund be saying so, this sounds a very complex way
round the issue,  i.e. to have
OpenOffice in there just to convert to pdf?   When you get chance,
maybe you should investigate
something like this,

                   http://www.gnupdf.org/Main_Page

Regards,


Chris.

PS  BTW I don't 'yum'  ..  source code man, not a distro man ;o)  )

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Cristian Rusu <address@hidden>
Date: 2009/1/6
Subject: Re: [Swftools-common] All2PDF tool
To: address@hidden


I just managed to setup everything on a centos5 to convert any
document to pdf in a simple command line.

In case anyone is interested I post below the way:

I created a repo file in etc/yum.repo for OpenOffice 2.4 headless -
this is important

[ooo]
name=Scientific $basearch
baseurl=http://linux.web.psi.ch/dist/scientific/4/enhanced/20080409/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-sci
failovermethod=priority


yum install openoffice.org-core01
...
yum install openoffice.org-headless
...

there is a bunch to install I am not linux guru to know how to do all
at once, so I just run each openoffice related rpm you see here
http://linux.web.psi.ch/dist/scientific/4/enhanced/20080409/

#install Java Runtime Engine
wget http://javadl.sun.com/webapps/download/AutoDL?BundleId=26213
chmod a+x jre-6u<version>-linux-i586-rpm.bin
./jre-6u<version>-linux-i586-rpm.bin

#Install cups - printer manager
yum install cups

#install pdf printer
#http://www.cups-pdf.de/download.shtml
yum install cups-pdf

#set it to be used by cups as printer
lpadmin -p Cups-PDF -v cups-pdf:/ -m PostscriptColor.ppd -E

#use command below
/opt/openoffice.org2.4/program/soffice -norestore -nofirststartwizard
-nologo -headless -pt Cups-PDF [your_file]

Files suppose to be saved wherever you tell cups-pdf through config
/etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf

>From here you just use swftools to get the pdfs up to flash format.

Sincerely
Cristian Rusu
Web Programmer & Electronic publisher


On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 16:17, Chris Pugh <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Without advocating anything specific,.. if you go here,
>
>     http://directory.fsf.org/
>
> and here,
>
>    http://sf.net
>
> and simply search for 'pdf'  or 'pdf creation',  you'll find more than enough
> programs to play with!
>
> HTH.
>
>
> Chris.
>
>
> 2009/1/6 Cristian Rusu <address@hidden>:
> > Hello
> >
> > Is there anyone that can point out to me the simplest way to convert all
> > kind of documents to simple PDF that works with swftools to get them into a
> > swf?
> >
> > I tried OpenOffice 2.4 with cups and cups-PDF, but for some reason they are
> > not yet figured out how to make them work.. if anyone managed that and can
> > give me a hand here would be appreciated.
> >
> >
> > Also, will this kind of PDF be ok for swf conversion?
> >
> > Sincerely
> > Cristian Rusu
> > Web Programmer & Electronic publisher
> >
>
>