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Last updated

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August 7th, 2005

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August 12th, 2005

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Note: Since 2005-08-12, I've installed a few extra fonts on + the server, which should solve most font problems for people. If you + still see them, try the “ebook” or better presets.

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This is an “anything to PDF” converter, not unlike what you get from Adobe's PDF Online service, but completely free and running entirely on free software. It is also @@ -61,8 +66,9 @@ multi-gigabyte jobs etc. on it regularily I might just not be able to do that. Please be nice :-)

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Note that there is minimal security involved; if I feel like it, I - might even take a look at what people are processing. Do not submit +

Note that there is minimal security involved; you can even look at + the last 20 submitted jobs at any time (this + is also handy for resuming a big download). Do not submit any sensitive data!

The converter is currently based on GPL @@ -83,18 +89,18 @@

  • BMP (.bmp), PNG (.png), JPEG (.jpg/.jpeg), XPM (.xpm), via ImageMagick.
  • Microsoft Word (.doc), Excel (.xls) and PowerPoint (.ppt), via OpenOffice.org (could be - slightly sketchy at times, let me know if it's broken), plus matching native - OpenOffice.org formats.
  • + slightly sketchy at times, let me know if it's broken).
  • Lots of different programming-related formats (.c, .pl, .js, etc.), via Vim.
  • +
  • Web pages, via Gecko + and gnome-web-photo + (thanks to Tommi Komulainen for telling me about the latter :-) ).
  • -

    If somebody knows a good way of getting a Gecko-based browser to - convert from an URL or HTML file to PostScript (on the command line), - please let me know; I'd guess HTML would be the most-wanted format - missing. :-) (You may want to try out - Dynalivery's headless Gecko - demo for a free-as-in-beer service for rendering HTML to PDF.)

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    Note that all URLs are currently treated as web pages; you cannot, + for instance, points to a PostScript file on the net and expect it + to be rendered correctly. Expect this to change in the not-too-distant + future.

    Source code