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Converting Your Document

The steps required to convert your document for electronic publishing depend upon the format of the document and the format(s) you intend to publish.

From LaTeX..

...to HTML

Latex2html is a perl program that translates LaTeX source files into HTML. The web site provides all the information you should need, or try the latex2html(1) man page.

...to Postscript

Simple:
% dvips -o myfile.ps myfile.dvi

...to PDF

First generate postscript, then convert that to pdf using Adobe's distill program:
% dvips -Ppscm myfile.dvi | distill> myfile.pdf
The -Ppscm option tells dvips to use Type-1 Computer Modern fonts, which look better in the resulting pdf document. (If you run distill interactively, it will ask you what level you want to use. Don't panic, it makes little difference which you choose.)

From Framemaker..

...to HTML

Select File, then Save As.... In the dialog, change the Format to HTML. Then save it.

...to Postscript

Select File, then Print.... In the dialog, change the Destination to Postscript File. Then "print" it.

...to PDF

Select File, then Save As.... In the dialog, change the Format to PDF. Then save it.

Page Owner: John Bazik Last Modified: Thu Apr 24 16:05:51 2003