PDF creator - command line

[Mims]

Hi
I'm looking for command line PDF creator.
I would like to create PDF files from *.doc, *.txt, *.html with linked
*.css.
All tools I have found wasn't this what I looked for.
Some didn't support Polish fonts, other didn't recognize *.css...
All of what I found, created pdf, which were a little bit different then
originally file.
I have to mention, that the main problem I have, is that originally file is
first printed, then must be convert to pdf and saved for ever. And the pdf
file should be the same - as printed. But - there always is difference -
smaller fonts, different margins, etc.....
Is there any program, any converter, that can convert my files to pdf that
will be good enough for me?
Such a program have to be called from command line...
Any help?
Regards
Michau

[Aandi Inston]

"Mims" <ser...@polbox.com> wrote:

>I have to mention, that the main problem I have, is that originally file is
>first printed, then must be convert to pdf and saved for ever. And the pdf
>file should be the same - as printed. But - there always is difference -
>smaller fonts, different margins, etc.....

This is normal, and completely inevitable. Word is not a tool for
precise layout. Changing printer driver causes reflow.

You can overcome this variation by FIRST converting to PDF, then
printing the PDF as well as saving it.
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[Mims]

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> You can overcome this variation by FIRST converting to PDF, then
> printing the PDF as well as saving it.
> ----------------------------------------

[..]

Yeah, it's easy to say....
Users have to use word and print word documents, before files become
pdf's...
I know, that solutions you told is the best, but, not in this situation.
Thanks, anyway...
Any other ideas?
Regard
Michau

[Aandi Inston]

"Mims" <ser...@polbox.com> wrote:

>
>Użytkownik "Aandi Inston" <qu...@dial.pipex.con> napisał w wiadomości
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>> You can overcome this variation by FIRST converting to PDF, then
>> printing the PDF as well as saving it.
>> ----------------------------------------
>[..]
>
>
>Yeah, it's easy to say....
>Users have to use word and print word documents, before files become
>pdf's...

Ok, then users must be educated to expect document changes. That is
what happens when they use Word, and there is no use trying to hide
it. The same thing would happen if they had a new printer.

[Matti Vuori]

qu...@dial.pipex.con (Aandi Inston) wrote in
news:45bfac1a....@read.news.uk.uu.net:

>>I have to mention, that the main problem I have, is that originally
>>file is first printed, then must be convert to pdf and saved for ever.
>>And the pdf file should be the same - as printed. But - there always
>>is difference - smaller fonts, different margins, etc.....
>
> This is normal, and completely inevitable. Word is not a tool for
> precise layout. Changing printer driver causes reflow.

For most people, including me, this hasen't happened since 1997 when they
learned to turn off the setting "use printer metrics to lay out
document".

But the symptoms here look like a document is laid on an A4 paper, but
the PDF printer uses Letter size.

--
Matti Vuori, <http://sivut.koti.soon.fi/mvuori/index-e.htm>

[Mims]

Użytkownik "Matti Vuori" <mvu...@koti.soon.fi> napisał w wiadomości
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> For most people, including me, this hasen't happened since 1997 when they
> learned to turn off the setting "use printer metrics to lay out
> document".

Sounds interesting...
Could You please tell me, where can I find this setting? Is it pdf printer
setting, word setting or somewhere else setting??:)

> But the symptoms here look like a document is laid on an A4 paper, but
> the PDF printer uses Letter size.
>

I will check it tomorrow, but probably it is exactly as you wrote.
Thanks
Regards
Michau

[Mims]

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[..]

> But the symptoms here look like a document is laid on an A4 paper, but
> the PDF printer uses Letter size.
>

Bingo!
That is the solutions! In few places, in the PDF printer, there was Letter
size .After changed it to A4 - everything is as it should be.

Thank a lot,
Michau

[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hi Mims

Mims wrote:
> Users have to use word and print word documents, before files become
> pdf's...

Why? If it's really necessary that the PDF is exactly the same as the
document, set FinePrint or some such driver as the default printer. When
they print, a preview of the PDF is opening, and then they can decide to
send it to

a) discard it (because they see they have forgotten something :-))
b) send it to a real printer, and/or
c) save as PDF

For best "compliance" of the direct (say) Word output and the PDF, make
sure you have your compatibility options set right, and (still) use the
PDF printer driver when the document is paginated.

2cents
Robert
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[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Mims wrote:
>> For most people, including me, this hasen't happened since 1997 when they
>> learned to turn off the setting "use printer metrics to lay out
>> document".
>
> Sounds interesting...
> Could You please tell me, where can I find this setting? Is it pdf printer
> setting, word setting or somewhere else setting??:)

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