RE: Formats for cross-platform documentation?

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Joel Konkle-Parker  came right out and said:
 
> dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com wrote:
> > You can create Word documents, but not PDFs?  There are 
> lots of ways to 
> > create PDFs.
> 
> Well, I'd be creating Word docs (and whatever else it can 
> export) with 
> OpenOffice 1.0.3 (which doesn't include the PDF output, I 
> believe). Are 
> there other ways on an SGI? We're talking free here.


OpenOffice 1.1 and newer are free and available for download.
Doesn't 1.1 include PDF creation?

You can upgrade/update in minutes. 

There are a bunch of open-source tools for creating PDFs. 
They are available from many sources pre-compiled (i.e., binaries) 
for Linux and other UNICES. Nobody does that for SGI?
You could always roll your own, from source. 

OpenOffice can export html, xml... what do you need/want? 

Kevin

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