pd-iemlib: request for review/sponsoring

Jonas Smedegaard dr at jones.dk
Fri Dec 13 14:51:55 UTC 2013


Quoting IOhannes m zmölnig (2013-12-13 15:00:41)
> On 2013-12-12 18:41, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>>> do we then have to actually *build* the pdf from the doc?
>>> (or would a note suffice, that claims that the doc is the source of 
>>> the pdf?)
>>
>> If we want to ship the PDF with binary packages, then indeed it needs 
>> to be built from the source (else we cannot be sure the binary that 
>> we ship is not somehow different - e.g. contains non-free Adobe font 
>> code).
>
> darn, i thought so too.
> 
> so what's the recommended (minimal) package to build PDFs from DOCs?

I guess that'd be the package wv.  Or if results of that is too ugly, 
then maybe unoconv.

To check alternatives, install apt-xapian-index and run this command:

  $ axi-cache search word pdf


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