On 11/17/2010 6:21 PM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 17:34 -0500, Gary Schnabl wrote:
On 11/17/2010 12:18 PM, Sigrid Carrera wrote:
Hi Jean,
I've tried to export the odm to pdf on my netbook. It took quite a
while (approx. 2 hours or so), but I have the pdf file now.
Can you be a bit more specific, which images disappeared? I haven't
checked the whole document yet, but for the part that I did check, the
images are there.
So, did this happen only later in the document?
Thanks for extra hints.
Sigrid
One approach at book building would be to employ Adobe FrameMaker on the
ODT subdocument files by converting them to DOC and importing them into
a FrameMaker book. That way you could have reliable xrefs to both
external and internal subdocuments and still have other advantages of a
real DTP application.
OOo is OK with master docs, but FrameMaker is a much better tool for
books and such. Also the Adobe PDF printer file (and Acrobat Pro) has a
myriad of options not available otherwise.
That might get our books done, but it's more important to find bugs in
OOo and report them. Also, employing a proprietary program to produce
our books goes against the philosophy of the OOo project. IF we were
going to use an outside program (and I don't support doing that), then
we would need to choose an open-source alternative. And for what FM does
well, I don't think there are any alternatives.
On a purely practical note, I doubt many (if any) other members of the
OOo Docs project have a copy of FrameMaker (or would be willing to pay
for one), which would seriously limit the number of people able to work
on full books.
Lastly, you don't know that the x-refs will behave themselves any better
in FM unless you have tried with one of our books. If there is a problem
in the OOo files, that problem could well persist when they are saved
in .doc format and thus persist when brought into FM.
--Jean
Shopping reputable sources on eBay, one can get legal versions of
FrameMaker very cheaply, especially the older versions. I got my legal
Adobe Acrobat Professional 8 for less than $100 right after version 9
came out years ago. Amazon is another source like eBay for getting all
sorts of things.
Somebody working or studying at a university should have access to both
FrameMaker and Acrobat.
--
Gary Schnabl
Southwest Detroit, two miles NORTH! of Canada--Windsor, that is...
