Lyx (was: [ale] Cross-Platform Document Publishing)

[Davis, Ricardo C.]

No, but you can on other Unices -- SunOS/Solaris, AIX, HP-UX -- using an
older version of Adobe Acrobat Exchange/Distiller (version 3.x).  It appears
that after this version authoring Acrobat documents was the domain of
Windows and MacOS systems.  No Linux version in sight.
 
On Mac OS X when you preview any document from an application built for the
operating system you can save that preview as a PDF file.  Very cool, but
not the same as having the full Acrobat application.
 
 
-Ricardo

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Philips [mailto:jim.philips at s1.com]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 1:07 PM
To: 'ale at ale.org'
Subject: RE: Lyx (was: [ale] Cross-Platform Document Publishing)



The request was to be able to create and edit cross-platform as well. To my
knowledge, Adobe only makes an Acrobat reader for Linux. So, the questions
is this: Can you create pdf's on a Linux box? 

-----Original Message----- 
From: Dow Hurst [ mailto:dhurst at kennesaw.edu <mailto:dhurst at kennesaw.edu> ] 
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 12:24 PM 
To: Jeff Hubbs; ale at ale.org 
Subject: Re: Lyx (was: [ale] Cross-Platform Document Publishing) 


I've used xpdf or some such animal to view PDFs under Linux with no 
problem.  SGI is providing auto generated quotes for their sales reps 
using the PDF format.  I really like that since too many MSWord docs 
come my way when I am on an SGI or Linux machine.  Ghostscripts 
postscript to pdf converter worked fine for me.  Have you tried that? 
Dow 

Jeff Hubbs wrote: 
> 
> > PDF will work the best at preserving graphics, appearance and 
> > print aspects and it works on most all platforms/distros 
> 
> I don't disagree, but where is Adobe Acrobat for Linux?  Reading the 
> documents cross-platform is as important to me as being able to create and

> edit them cross-platform. 
> 
> In the course of following up on the suggestion re Docbook, I came across 
> Lyx and I'm finding it fascinating.  Does anyone here know Lyx very well?
I 
> could use some help creating a template. 
> 
> - Jeff 
> 

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