Re: Open Office Pdf Conversion Problem

[Brian Barker]

At 13:44 25/01/2016 +1100, Wayne Olling wrote:

I am sorry to be a bother.


There's no indication you have been.

Since the beginning of this year I am not able to convert an odt. or 
doc. file to pdf when I click on the pdf icon in the tools gallery. 
When I click on the icon it produces the intended question of saving 
the file as a pdf by title but when I click on that I get a message 
saying the file already exists and asks do I want to replace it. 
When I click 'yes' I get a message saying that there was a write 
error and the file could not be written.


OpenOffice has a strange option in both the Save As... and Export 
dialogue boxes. Near the bottom, you will see an "Automatic file name 
extension" tick box. Has this become unticked? If it has, you will be 
saving documents in the correct format, but the file names will not 
be getting the proper extension. So a text document will be called 
just "name" rather than "name.odt": you will have a valid file but 
without the correct extension. Like this, the documents will not open 
in the correct application when they are double-clicked, but they can 
be opened in other ways.


If you attempt to export such a file as PDF, the tick box will still 
be empty, so you will be trying to create a file named "name" instead 
of "name.pdf". But that means, of course, that you are saving the PDF 
copy over the original ODT document - also now called just "name". 
The error message you see is because the ODT version (albeit also 
without the appropriate extension) is locked by the fact that you 
have it open in OpenOffice.


All you need to do is to replace that tick in "Automatic file name 
extension". Once you have done this, it will stick - just as the absence did.


This occurred with Open Office 4.1.1 from early January 2016 and 
even after I converted to 4.1.2 late last week.


This setting will be saved in your OpenOffice user profile, and this 
is intentionally preserved across any upgrade in order to maintain 
your choices. So yes: it makes sense that upgrading will not have 
affected matters.


I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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Re: Open Office Pdf Conversion Problem

[Martin Groenescheij]

Sent from my mobile device.

> On 25 Jan 2016, at 12:44 PM,   
> wrote:
> 
> I am sorry to be a bother.
> Since the beginning of this year I am not able to convert an odt. or doc. 
> file to pdf when I click on the pdf icon in the tools gallery.
> When I click on the icon it produces the intended question of saving the file 
> as a pdf by title but when I click on that I get a message saying the file 
> already exists and asks do I want to replace it. When I click 'yes' I get a 
> message saying that there was a write error and the file could not be written.

This message comes from Windows not from OpenOffice.
Either you have the file open in a PDF reader or there is a lock file.
Try to save in an other directory and see if the problem is solved.

> This occurred with Open Office 4.1.1 from early January 2016 and even after I 
> converted to 4.1.2 late last week.
> Can you advise help?
> Best Wishes,Wayne ollingw.oll...@bigpond.com  



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Open Office Pdf Conversion Problem

[w.olling]

I am sorry to be a bother.
Since the beginning of this year I am not able to convert an odt. or doc. file 
to pdf when I click on the pdf icon in the tools gallery.
When I click on the icon it produces the intended question of saving the file 
as a pdf by title but when I click on that I get a message saying the file 
already exists and asks do I want to replace it. When I click 'yes' I get a 
message saying that there was a write error and the file could not be written.
This occurred with Open Office 4.1.1 from early January 2016 and even after I 
converted to 4.1.2 late last week.
Can you advise help?
Best Wishes,Wayne ollingw.oll...@bigpond.com
  

Re: Open Office Pdf Conversion Problem

[Steve Ahlers]

Have you tried to print, and then chose to produce a PDF instead of sending an 
image to your printer? (The PDF button is at the bottom left of the print 
control dialog).

Steve
Sent from my iPad

On Jan 24, 2016, at 6:44 PM,  wrote:

> I am sorry to be a bother.
> Since the beginning of this year I am not able to convert an odt. or doc. 
> file to pdf when I click on the pdf icon in the tools gallery.
> When I click on the icon it produces the intended question of saving the file 
> as a pdf by title but when I click on that I get a message saying the file 
> already exists and asks do I want to replace it. When I click 'yes' I get a 
> message saying that there was a write error and the file could not be written.
> This occurred with Open Office 4.1.1 from early January 2016 and even after I 
> converted to 4.1.2 late last week.
> Can you advise help?
> Best Wishes,Wayne ollingw.oll...@bigpond.com 

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