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

[Jim Philips]

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]
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
>