Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] WebTV & PDF

[Mark Rages <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 11/7/05, Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> On 11/7/05, Christian M. Cepel <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> > I hate to ask here, but my web searches have been fruitless, and while I
> > doubt users of Linux have much opportunity to frustrate themselves with
> > WebTV, I realize there's always a chance.  So... here goes.
> >
> > I have a member of our band who uses WebTV.
>
> OK, so I just did the obvious google search (webtv pdf) and came up
> with almost half a million hits which seem pretty unanimous in their
> opinion on the likelihood that this will work.  I estimate the
> probability as being essentially zero.  I'm guessing that you'd have
> better luck just mailing her the sheets, or maybe faxiing them to her,
> or asking her to go to a local library to view/print them.
>
> Getting WebTV to do PDF just can't be worth it, unless the solution is
> a deep, dark, mystical secret that nobody much knows about.
>
> jking
>

If you're running the website, you can pass the PDF through
ghostscript to make a series of PNGs or GIFs.  If Ghostscript annoys
you (it does me) you can just use ImageMagick's "convert" utility,
which will call ghostscript for you.

Regards,
Mark
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