From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson) Date: 2003-07-06T06:08:59+09:00 Subject: Re: [ANN] Slides from my talk are up on rubyhacker.com In article <182d01c342c2$662b2ca0$0300a8c0@austin.rr.com>, Hal E. Fulton wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Mauricio Fern�ndez" >To: "ruby-talk ML" >Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2003 1:36 AM >Subject: Re: [ANN] Slides from my talk are up on rubyhacker.com > > >> On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 03:24:43PM +0900, Hal E. Fulton wrote: >> > > > I don't have the ability to create a PDF. At least, if I do, >> > > > I'm not aware of it. :) >> > > >> > > http://www.pdf995.com if you're on win32. >> > > >> > > ps2pdf under unices. >> > >> > I assume ps2pdf converts from Postscript? All I >> > have is HTML and some JPGs. >> >> http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/ >> >> it's GPL >> >> HTMLDOC 1.8.23 > >[snip] > >That's very nice to know. I'll definitely use that >at some point in the future. > >But quality might be better if I converted directly >from the Powerpoint (.ppt) file... I wonder if the >HTML it generates (which is awful) could be read >by this tool? > >Powerpoint can't export as .ps or .pdf -- it can >do a few formats such as .rtf and some graphical >formats. Probably by design. Wouldn't want people translating to open formats when we can lock them into closed ones. > >But really, I myself don't feel the need for a .pdf -- >it was someone else who did. Yet I'd still be willing >to convert it if someone found it useful and it didn't >take too much effort. I was asking, it's not that big of a deal. I just figured it would be nice to have a document with your presentation all in one file. Phil