OpenOffice does this natively
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| Author | Content |
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| hiohoaus Dec 25, 2006 2:19 PM EDT |
File, Export as PDF. Done. Works on any platform. |
| dcparris Dec 25, 2006 3:30 PM EDT |
True that. It's just another FOSS tool. ;-) |
| jimf Dec 25, 2006 3:39 PM EDT |
Thanks hiohoaus, I didn't know... Guess that shows how long it's been since I used Windows to any extent :) . |
| herzeleid Dec 25, 2006 4:34 PM EDT |
Quoting: jimf: Thanks hiohoaus, I didn't know... Guess that shows how long it's been since I used Windows to any extent :) .I'm confused. Did you mean to say X-windows? Puzzled in Torrance |
| jimf Dec 25, 2006 5:15 PM EDT |
> Did you mean to say X-windows? No, MS Windows. |
| Alcibiades Dec 25, 2006 11:56 PM EDT |
Very valuable feature of OO, especially appreciated by authors in some circumstances where they wish to submit their work in a form which will not readily allow covert editing, or at least not easily, or not by unsophisticated end users. |
| swbrown Dec 26, 2006 12:22 AM EDT |
An "Export to PDF" isn't as good as a virtual printer driver that prints to PDF, which is what PDFCreator does on Windows (it's a must-have for Windows installs). It enables anything that can print to save PDF, even if it wasn't originally intended. In the GNU/Linux world we've always been able to print to PostScript and work from there, but Windows wasn't capable of things like that. Still, converting from PostScript directly to PDF means you can't use a lot of PDF's indexing features. The evolution of printing will be sending that higher order information to the printer - I've not printed anything in so long I forgot where folks were on this, but I think the idea was to replace the "Everything sends PostScript" to "Everything sends PDF". |
| jezuch Dec 26, 2006 3:21 AM EDT |
Quoting:it's a must-have for Windows installs Absolutely! I used to use it a lot at work :) Quoting:Windows wasn't capable of things like that Actually in the old days I used a driver of a PS-enabled printer. But then, you couldn't do much with the result... |
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