PDF Authoring tool, suggestions?

[Chris Rees]

2009/4/17 Ltcddata <ltcddata at davids-website.com>:
> On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:22:08 +0100
> Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 07:26:39AM +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
>> > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 08:50:44PM -0600, Modulok wrote:
>> > > I'm looking for recommendations for a BSD-friendly, PDF authoring
>> > > tool (Not a viewer, see below.)
>> > >
>> > > I have an image of a signature that I need to put into a PDF
>> > > document. I converted the original, un-signed PDF document to a
>> > > raster PNG, then used GIMP to place a photograph of the signature
>> > > where I need it. I then converted the PNG back to a PDF using
>> > > ImageMagick's 'convert' utility. The problem, is the PDF is now
>> > > HUGE. Both in dimensions as well as file size. It went from 28kb
>> > > to 292Kb. There must be a better way to do this.
>> >
>> > Convert the PNG to a JPEG file with the gimp, then use jpeg2ps from
>> > the graphics/jpeg2ps-a4 or graphics/jpeg2ps-letter port to convert
>> > it to PostScript. Finally, use epstopdf from print/teTeX-base or
>> > ps2pdf from print/ghostscript8 to convert to PDF.
>>
>> hard to get good quality because the result is likely to be a raster
>> image. Technically I'd do this with ImageMagick's composite - overlaps
>> one image over another, but the output pdf will be a poor quality
>> raster image and, yes, significantly bigger in size.
>>
>
> Don't know if I am missing the point here but why not use open office
> to create your pdf file with its export as PDF feature?

I would imagine it would give a large output file; a stated goal of
the OP is to give a small output.

Chris



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