Archiving press articles

[Marc Fonvieille]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 04:51:16PM +0100, Christian Brueffer wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 12:52:20PM +0000, Ceri Davies wrote:
> > 
> > I was going to commit www/76845, but when I went to archive the article
> > I found that as well as compressed HTML files, we also have PostScript
> > copies of the articles backed up.
> > 
> > Could someone please update /c/www/bsddoc/press/README with a note on
> > how those PostScript files are generated?  I'm dead in the water now.
> > 
> 
> I always used the PDF or PS printing capabilities of my webbrowser for
> that.  If the browser could just print into PDF files, I used pdf2ps to
> convert it.
> 
> Overall I've used Safari, Konqueror and Operafor the job, so all of
> these should work.
>

Same here, I used the printing capabilities of Mozilla.

% zgrep Creator *.ps.gz

can give what tool was used for the conversion.

> No idea what to put into that file though, is there an easy canonical
> way to handle this?
>

I'm in the same boat, there is no real tool to do a such conversion in a
good way, so beside asking people to print to a .ps file via their
browser, I don't really know what to add.

Marc
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