From: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: OSX to PDF: Minimal Install
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2012 11:27:37 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878vajut2m.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5790.1351886526@alphaville.americas.hpqcorp.net> (Nick Dokos's message of "Fri, 02 Nov 2012 16:02:06 -0400")
Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> writes:
> Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Nathan Neff <nathan.neff@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I'd like to convert org-mode documents to PDF using the exporter,
>> > on OSX, but it appears that I'd have to download MacTex which is a 2GB
>> > download. Is there anything smaller that I could download in order to
>> > be able to
>> > export org documents to PDF?
>>
>> Install LibreOffice and follow instructions in this thread:
>>
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2012-09/msg00027.html
>>
>
> I did a quick and dirty calculation on my Ubuntu 11.04 system like this:
>
> ,----
> | $ apt-cache show libreoffice-* | grep Installed | awk '{ total +=
> | $2;} END {print total;}'
> | 6026311
> | $ apt-cache show texlive-* | grep Installed | awk '{ total += $2;}
> | END {print total;}'
> | 1419784
> `----
>
> So if Nathan objects to 2GB of TeX, I presume 6GB would be 3 (or perhaps
> 4, given my numbers) times more unacceptable :-)
According to these links:
http://www.libreoffice.org/download (This lands in x86/Debian page)
http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/3.6.3/deb/x86/LibO_3.6.3_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz.mirrorlist
the size of the package is 154M (161632133 bytes).
>
> Caveats:
>
> o I haven't checked the calculation at all (not even to make sure the
> units are KB) - but the relative size of the numbers is telling
> nevertheless.
>
> o There may be lots of extraneous packages in the lists that one could
> omit and that might make a big difference in the final numbers.
>
> o Nathan may have Libre Office already installed for other reasons, in
> which case size considerations are moot.
>
> Nick
>
>
>
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-03 5:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-02 18:54 OSX to PDF: Minimal Install Nathan Neff
2012-11-02 19:34 ` Chris Malone
2012-11-02 19:41 ` Jambunathan K
2012-11-02 20:02 ` Nick Dokos
2012-11-03 5:57 ` Jambunathan K [this message]
2012-11-03 7:41 ` Christian Moe
2012-11-03 9:07 ` Axel E. Retif
2012-11-05 14:54 ` Nathan Neff
2012-11-05 20:16 ` Jambunathan K
2012-11-02 21:49 ` Axel E. Retif
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