Articles In Pdf...........

Dear Saverio,

I will take advantage of your post to provide information also to all the others who may benefit from it.

While asking TheSimon (or anyone else on any other site) to convert articles into PDF would oblige him to:

1. Buy software to produce the format (software that is not cheap at all)

2. Use his own work to convert existing content and update the site with new content (even the labor is not cheap),

there are, instead, other solutions that each of us can practice without burdening others, not only, but even gaining other advantages.

One is the use of various format converters, but they are generally paid and age rapidly if they convert proprietary formats (because the producer of the starting format innovates and the publishers using that format use its new features); therefore you must update continuously and pay continuously.

If you do not like this "consumerist" approach, there is instead, at the expense of each of us, a possibility that I have already, if I am not mistaken, recommended once more, but "REPETITA JUVANT"; it enables you to have in PDF everything you need and not just the stuff from this site.

In essence, it consists of activating a "virtual printer" on the computer, i.e., a driver (which is a program) that pretends to be a printer and instead produces a file in PDF format.

In this way, provided that the site allows printing or downloading (in this second case you need software to read the format and print it), you have all the PDFs you want; the obvious downside is that you may lose some functionality (if the site does not allow downloading), as certain editorial structures can be lost (For example: if you print an electronic score, the resulting PDF file contains the graphic image and the information on notes, embellishments, dynamics, etc., is lost, even if the textual part is preserved [if the application used/the driver is intelligent!]). One consequence is that the resulting PDF file generally "inflates," meaning it takes up more space, but memory now costs very little.

I, for example, on Windows use Bullzip PDF Printer (free), while on Ubuntu I have activated Cups-pdf (Open source).

For Mac we hear that TheSimon recommends TheSimon.

Hello and Happy New Year

Me, regarding writing, I can mention LaTeX, a programming language that uses MikTeX packages; it is not very immediate, but with it one can obtain results comparable to those found in textbooks: if you want, I can post some examples, though with articles not related to the topics I have studied.

Latex is excellent if you want to be the editor, even for mathematical-physical texts.

Actually, Saverio, it seems to me, was only referring to the possibility of having a PDF rendering of something published by others, which is why I suggested the virtual printer.

Andrea, if you work a lot with Tex, instead of using Latex macros directly, it is worth using the Latex editor "Kile" which I used several years ago and is very powerful.

I use the Texmaker editor and I am very happy with it: it is freeware and truly powerful. Kyle is for Linux, but I think there is also a version for Windows: thanks for the advice, I will try it.

Dear Saverio, how can they not satisfy you? I will get to work immediately and see about sending you the PDFs of those two articles.

Here is Saverio satisfied...

YOU ARE A GREAT SIMONE!!!

A profound thank you from the bottom of my heart, from your humble and trying pupil.

Big hello and a strong hug

saverio

TheSimon wrote:

Here is Saverio satisfied...

Thanks!

Sorry Andrea, I didn't know you used Windows!

If you have already installed a distribution like MikTex on Windows, Kyle installs quite immediately. You can find the details on SourceForge.

The only concern for Windows is that, since Kyle is a KDE application, I don't know how performant it might be.

In fact, I used it on a multiprocessor with Ubuntu underneath and there this kind of application runs like lightning.

Anyway, Texmaker is not bad at all, from a functional point of view, in fact.

Bye