What to do with a RAM-heavy desktop?

[John Abreau]

Bill Ricker wrote:
>> Acrobat ... Crossover Office does NOT show the Adobe products
>> as supported apps in their > tested list.
>>     
>
> Is Adobe Acrobat brand PDF support required, or is the ability to
> create / manipulate PDF required?
>
> Adobe ACROREAD is available from Adobe for Linux, and many Linux
> programs have native PDF support without Adobe add-ons.
>   

I've found that pdftk is a great command-line tool for editing
PDF files, and OpenOffice does a good job of exporting Word
and Excel documents to PDF.

One thing I'm unsatisfied with is saving web pages to PDF.
The best I've found is Cups-PDF, which acts as a printer
driver to create PDF files, but the individual pages come
out as embedded images, not as text. I'm not sure if the
problem is with Firefox, CUPS, or the Cups-PDF driver,
or some combination of the parts.

The band-aid workaround I currently use is to save the web
page from Firefox, scp the .html file and _files directory
over to a MacOSX box, and then open it with Safari on the
MacOSX box and print to PDF.

Has anyone found a way to save web pages to PDF that
doesn't convert the pages to embedded images?

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John Abreau
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