linux pdf creator ?

[John Griffiths]

At 09:31 AM 8/29/01 +1000, Drake Diedrich wrote:
>On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 02:43:34PM +1000, Jerry Cashman wrote:
>> Hi people,
>> 
>> Is there a toolset for creating PDF files on Linux (rh) ?
>> 
>
>pdflatex goes directly from LaTeX to PDF, and in principle can preserve
>internal hyperlinks (unverified, but one of the reasons to bypass .dvi). 
>The same LaTeX file can also be used to produce fully internally linked HTML
>files using httex (in the tex4ht package), and other formats such as
>postscriipt via the intermediate .dvi format.  Internal hyperlinks from
>footnotes marks to footnotes, table of contents to chapters/sections, index
>to main text, etc, all fully automatic.
>

While on the subject of pdf does anyone know of linux tools to manipulate the acrobat file info "General Info" section? brought up using Ctrl-D in Acrobat?

We use it for metatagging pdf's and not being able to access that field is halting my rush to a linux desktop.