[svlug] PDF work

[Karl Larsen]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, William R Ward wrote:

> Karl Larsen writes:
> >	Open Office 1.0 does not have a way to export your work to a 
> >.pdf file, but version 1.1 does. I have used it with good results. But 
> >having a problem with reversing the process.
> 
> I've tried it, but haven't been able to get good results.  Instead I
> print to a PostScript file and convert that to PDF using ps2pdf.

	That works fine but Open Office 1.0 doesn't have even a .ps 
output. I use it if I'm writing in TeX. 

> 
> >	I experimented with Ghostscript and found the Open Office 1.1 
> >would try to load a postscript file but it is not successful. Has anyone 
> >been able to load a .pdf file to any editor? 
> 
> The ps2pdf program should work for you.  It's included in the
> gs-common package (Debian).  There's also pstopdf which works about as
> well, in the tetex-bin package.
> 
	Well Bill, I think the Open Office pdf is the one I like best. 
It seems to do a good job.


> --Bill.
> 
> 

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