Forgive my indulgence, but I am pleased to announce the publication of my book, Solaris Systems Programming. Despite the word "Solaris" in its title, my book is suitable for programmers of any UNIX or UNIX-like operating system. My vision of this book was one that could be regarded as an updated and expanded version of Rich Stevens' excellent Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, with a Solaris bias. With all humility, I think I've largely achieved this lofty goal, although time will tell...
The book is a hardback with 1248 pages, is published by Sun Microsystems Press (an imprint of Prentice Hall PTR), and is available immediately.
More details, including a sample chapter, the complete preface and table of contents, and a searchable index can be found from my web site, www.rite-group.com/rich . This URL can also be used to order a copy of the book.
We now return you to your regular programming (pun intended!)...
-- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, author of "Solaris Systems Programming", published in August 2004.
> Forgive my indulgence, but I am pleased to announce the > publication of my book, Solaris Systems Programming. > Despite the word "Solaris" in its title, my book is > suitable for programmers of any UNIX or UNIX-like > operating system. My vision of this book was one that > could be regarded as an updated and expanded version of > Rich Stevens' excellent Advanced Programming in the UNIX > Environment, with a Solaris bias. With all humility, I > think I've largely achieved this lofty goal, although > time will tell...
> The book is a hardback with 1248 pages, is published by > Sun Microsystems Press (an imprint of Prentice Hall PTR), > and is available immediately.
> More details, including a sample chapter, the complete > preface and table of contents, and a searchable index > can be found from my web site, www.rite-group.com/rich . > This URL can also be used to order a copy of the book.
> We now return you to your regular programming (pun > intended!)...
Nice, but PLS explain how and where you created the PDF files :)
On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 23:29:36 +0000, Rich Teer wrote: > I had to use Adobe Acrobat; bugs in the version of ps2pdf > prevented me from using it. :-( As to where, it was right > here, using SunPCi IIpro.
dvipdfm(1)
DESCRIPTION The program dvipdfm generates a PDF file from a DVI file. DVI files are the output format produced by TeX. Output from groff can be converted to DVI format using grodvi.
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Dave Uhring wrote: > dvipdfm(1)
> DESCRIPTION > The program dvipdfm generates a PDF file from a DVI file. > DVI files are the output format produced by TeX. Output > from groff can be converted to DVI format using grodvi.
Alas, I only have dvipdf (which also goes through PostScript conversion phase. Due to time constraints, I didn't have time, nor the inclination, to mess about trying to find another way of converting PostScript to PDF.
I think the latest version of Aladin GhostScript (8.somehting) does the job, but the GPL version (7.something) doesn't. I tried compiling Aladin GhostScript here, but (surprise surprise) it didn't work out of the box. :-(
Apart from a bit of text misalignment, ps2pdf did a good job. Just not acceptable for a professional looking book. I suspect the latest (non-GPL) version of GhostScript will fix that.
-- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, author of "Solaris Systems Programming", published in August 2004.
On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 23:58:50 +0000, Rich Teer wrote: > I think the latest version of Aladin GhostScript (8.somehting) > does the job, but the GPL version (7.something) doesn't. I > tried compiling Aladin GhostScript here, but (surprise surprise) > it didn't work out of the box. :-(
I recently built ghostscript-8.13 without any problems on S10_b63. Just be sure to have '-L/usr/openwin/lib -R/usr/openwin/lib" in your $LDFLAGS. You do need GNUmake to build it.
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Dave Uhring wrote: > I recently built ghostscript-8.13 without any problems on S10_b63. Just > be sure to have '-L/usr/openwin/lib -R/usr/openwin/lib" in your $LDFLAGS. > You do need GNUmake to build it.
Ah, that explains it - thanks for the tip, and I'll give it another go sometime. Good job I only downloaded the trial version of Acrobat!
-- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, author of "Solaris Systems Programming", published in August 2004.
On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 23:58:50 +0000, Rich Teer wrote: > I think the latest version of Aladin GhostScript (8.somehting) does the > job, but the GPL version (7.something) doesn't.
Much appreciated, James. I meant to send you an email while I was fighting with it, but had other fires to fight. I'll try your new packages when I get a few minutes...
> > I tried compiling Aladin > > GhostScript here, but (surprise surprise) it didn't work out of the box.
> Much appreciated, James. I meant to send you an email while I was > fighting with it, but had other fires to fight. I'll try your new > packages when I get a few minutes...
Perhaps you'll upgrade groff from 1.16.1 to the current 1.19.1 from blastwave - unless there is something else I should know.
