On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, James Miller wrote: > > I have recently discovered the ability of certain Linux word processing > apps to create pdf files. What I'm referring to here is the print to > file feature, i.e. printing an OpenOffice or M$Word file to pdf. This is > really useful for my work, and could save me plenty over the competing > Adobe product:) . The ones I've used so far are KWord (what a flaky > program!) and OpenOffice. When KWord can be operated with some degree of > sanity, it seems to produce the most compatible pdf files. I'm reluctant > to use it though: certain activities such as fiddling with the font type > drop down menu have the disastrous effect of killing XWindows. Yes, merely > glancing through that menu can cause X to simply obliterate, finally bringing > me back to the login prompt (gpm, I think) when things return to normalcy. > My comment on the flakiness of that app aside, what I'd really like to ask > concerns the pdf's I've created with OpenOffice (1.0). They look and display > fine under GV. But Adobe Acrobat Reader will not display them, claiming they > are corrupt. Does anyone have any idea why this is so and/or any pointers on > how to make Adobe be as happy with them as GV is? >
There seems to be a range of partial-compliance between different versions of pdf-aware packages. I haven't tried Open Office yet, but I've noticed that kde-3.1 (specifically, kghostview) needs the espgs version of ghostscript, and even then it canot read occasional documents such as a UK government "white paper" which was probably created in Acrobat. xpdf (using espgs) has so far read everything I've tried, but siag-office fails to read a lot of pdfs, and other packages fail to read some of its pdfs. My only advice is to have as wide a range of options as you can for incoming pdfs. Ken -- Out of the darkness a voice spake unto me, saying "smile, things could be worse". So I smiled, and lo, things became worse. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
