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print to postscript, then visit http://ps2pdf.com/ easy as pie, and free

A Postscript to PDF converter comes in handy ( http://www.ps2pdf.com/ ), as the documentation is provided in postscript and plain text (which is badly formatted).

You didn't specify OS, though I reckon it's probably an open source one. However, I'll post this anyway, in case it can help anyone:

Under Windows, you can add the driver for the "Apple Color LW 12/660 PS" printer, pointed at the FILE: port (i.e., it prints to a file). The resulting files are PostScript. You can then install GhostScript (either on its own or as part of Cygwin) and use the ps2pdf utility to convert it to PDF. It's not very featureful (e.g., it can't generate document indices or anything), but it looks sharp.

Also, ps2pdf.com apparently allows you to upload a .ps file and download a .pdf file without having to install GhostScript on your machine.

Good luck!

For superior quality, download Adobe's free Generic Postscript driver from their website. Also, be sure to set the font embedding to "always" so that TTF files don't get turned into ugly bitmaps.

The website ps2pdf.com also suffices for these purposes.

Ghostscript can create PDF files, and you can use ps2pdf.com if you don't want to download or install anything (you just need to set up a Postscript printer - it's in the FAQ).

While the AFPL is a non-DFSG license designed in large part to support an OEM licensing business, it also has three important freedoms that appear to be missing from the SPL:

1. Fork rights. You are perfectly free to take AFPL code, make your own modifications, and release that code under the AFPL. This distinguishes the AFPL from most other "almost free" licenses.

2. Commercial use. AFPL code is free for commercial use. An example is ps2pdf.com, which is an advertiser supported site using AFPL Ghostscript.

3. No grantback. If you make custom modifications for in-house use, you are not obligated to grant those modifications to the original author. Further, if you release a forked version under the AFPL, you are not obligated to license that code back to the original author so they can OEM license it.

In my opinion, the only significant right lacking from the AFPL is commercial redistribution without compensation. While people obviously disagree with this, my personal opinion is that it is not anywhere nearly as important as the other free software rights, especially now that free distribution over the Internet is ubiquitous. I frankly don't see why it's so important for Red Hat to make money from selling our code without compensating us in any way for our work.

Ghostscript has a fourth freedom guarantee, which is that major AFPL releases are re-released under the GPL a year later. Thus, the extra rights granted to us as commercial Ghostscript developers is fairly small and definitely time-limited. As long as we continue to improve Ghostscript actively, the AFPL version is valuable. As soon as we stop doing our job, it falls into the hands of the community.

The lack of funding for core development is a serious pragmatic weakness of the free software movement. Peter Deutsch, with Ghostscript and the AFPL license he authored, made a very good attempt to address that problem, and it's actually been working out pretty well for us.

Even so, freedom is very important to the Ghostscript project. Thus, I feel called to respond to comparisons between less-free licensing arrangements and Ghostscript.

also check out ps2pdf.com its pretty cool. you can upload postscript files and it will convert them into pdf files for you. this is nice if you dont have access to a unix machine.

use LaTeX? want an online reference manager that

This is a pretty cool web page that will do what you want if you are sitting at a machine with a web browser but you dont have the aformentioned ps2pdf utility.

www.ps2pdf.com


john