Free Programs to Create a PDF Document in Linux
Since the invention of PDF format in 1993 PDF documents have become extremely popular tool for exchanging information across the Web. Even now PDF beats more recent DJVU and various e-book formats in terms of popularity.
This article is a quick (and hopefully, a useful) note about 3 free programs for creating a PDF document in Linux (first of all, in Debian GNU/Linux, but in other distributions the situation is much the same).
This note is by no means a complete guide to PDF handling in Linux, and should be viewed as a simple road map for PDF lovers and self publishers, looking for a free open-source alternative to commercial applications.
1. OpenOffice.org (OOo) Editor
The easiest way to create a PDF from a text file is to export it as PDF in OpenOffice.org Writer. All you need to do is to put your text in OOo Writer and hit “Export as PDF” in “Files” menu — and you will get a nice PDF version 1.4 file. Creating a PDF with OOo is an extremely straight-forward and easy-to-learn process, even an absolute beginner can make a PDF just in seconds.
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