Thank you all very much for the many many replies. I am really overwhelmed
by all the solutions and tips being provided by this list, you all are
awesome!
I have tested ps2pdf and txt2pdf and the winner for my problem is txt2pdf.
There are other good tools being mentioned as well but I have not got the
chance to test them out but I want to mention here so others may use it for
reference in the future.
The tools are:
GhostScript, version 5.50, available from
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/index.html
PStill
http://www.this.net/~frank/pstill.html. It
īs shareware. The license costs
U$40,00 for commercial/government use or U$20,00 for private/educational
use.
ps2pdf
http://www.tc.cornell.edu/UserDoc/Software/Util/ghostscript/docs/Ps2pdf.htm
.
Itīs freeware.
tex, dvips, pdftex
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~bern/LaTeX2PDF.html
postprint is also a good tool to convert the text file into postscript
format then use ps2pdf to convert it to pdf format
you can use txt2pdf - http://www.sanface.com/txt2pdf.html. It's
shareware - US$25,00 every license. It requires PERL5 -
http://www.sunfreeware.com.
You could do this with Frame Maker. You'd have to read in the text,
then save it as PDF.
Try ImageMagik, a free collection of conversion programs..
You can do something as simple as "convert text.txt text.pdf".
The package is available from
http://www.wizards.dupont.com/cristy/ImageMagick.html
Check out the SDF package:
http://www.mincom.com/mtr/sdf/download/sdf-2.001.tar.gz
You can convert your text directly to HTML, PostScript, or PDF.
Take a look at http://www.pdfzone.com
They have tools like pdf2txt, txt2pdf, pstopdf, etc.
Sorry that I did not mentioned individual names because they are just too
many.
Thanks again and have a good summer time!
Zion
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Here is the original question:
To All Helpers:
The platform is Solaris 2.6 running Ultra Enterprise II.
Question:
We have got a 7000 pages of text file that need to convert to Adobe PDF
file format.
Could anyone share your insight on this, specially the freeware will be
great? I know the Adobe Acrobat 3.0 for Unix will do the job which will
cost $295 for single user.
Thanks in advance,
Zion
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