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- <p id="lastupdated">August 5th, 2005</p>
+ <p id="lastupdated">August 7th, 2005</p>
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do that. Please be nice :-)</p>
<p>Note that there is minimal security involved; if I feel like it, I
- might even take a look at what people are processing. <em>Do not submit
- any sensitive data!</em></p>
+ might even take a look at what people are processing. <strong>Do not submit
+ any sensitive data!</strong></p>
<p>The converter is currently based on <a href="http://www.ghostscript.com/">GPL
GhostScript</a> 8.01 (yes, a bit old); everything is pushed through it in one form or the
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<li>PostScript (.ps) and Encapsulated PostScript (.pdf), via GS directly</li>
<li>Plain text (.txt), via mpage</li>
- <li>BMP (.bmp), PNG (.png), JPEG (.jpg/.jpeg), XPM (.xpm), via <a href="http://www.imagemagick.com">ImageMagick</a>
- (somewhat odd image placement for now due to bugs in Debian sarge's
- version of ImageMagick).</li>
+ <li>BMP (.bmp), PNG (.png), JPEG (.jpg/.jpeg), XPM (.xpm), via <a href="http://www.imagemagick.com">ImageMagick</a>.</li>
<li>Microsoft Word (.doc), Excel (.xls) and PowerPoint (.ppt), via
<a href="http://www.openoffice.org">OpenOffice.org</a> (could be
- slightly sketchy at times, let me know if it's broken).</li>
+ slightly sketchy at times, let me know if it's broken), plus matching native
+ OpenOffice.org formats.</li>
<li>Lots of different programming-related formats (.c, .pl, .js, etc.),
via <a href="http://www.vim.org/">Vim</a>.</li>
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<p>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. :-)</p>
+ missing. :-) (You may want to try out
+ <a href="http://gecko.dynalivery.com/">Dynalivery's headless Gecko
+ demo</a> for a free-as-in-beer service for rendering HTML to PDF.)</p>
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