Cox: Six years of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

Posted Aug 18, 2011 12:14 UTC (Thu) by colo (guest, #45564)
Parent article: Cox: Six years of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

It somewhat startles me that even Red Hat seems to think they have to create their corporate PDFs using proprietary technolgy running on a competitor's non-free OS:

$ pdfinfo RHEL4_RiskReport_6yr_wp_5732067_0311_ma_web.pdf | fgrep Creator
Creator: Adobe InDesign CS5 (7.0.3)

Why not use LaTeX/pdflatex? :)

Cox: Six years of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

Posted Aug 18, 2011 12:58 UTC (Thu) by pjones (subscriber, #31722) [Link] (1 responses)

It's certainly not a company policy to do so - as an RH employee I'm fairly surprised Mark didn't use OpenOffice to generate this.

Cox: Six years of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

Posted Aug 18, 2011 13:03 UTC (Thu) by mjcox@redhat.com (guest, #31775) [Link]

The source is openoffice (the first few years were docbook), then the design folks do the PDF creation and add the style and better diagrams. It's a shame that the links get lost which is why i've been keeping the mini-reports for RHEL5 and RHEL6 in HTML.