Re: help with making a PDF file from a doc file

2019-10-08 Thread Jan van Wijk
Hi Ann, On Mon, 7 Oct 2019 21:36:06 -0400 ann sanfedele wrote: > >I don't have WORD.. that's the problem and Open office doesnt give me the >option of saving as a PDF. I saw Paul is already taking care of you :) However, you could do it in Open-Office as well. For some reason, creating a PDF i

Re: help with making a PDF file from a doc file

2019-10-08 Thread Nolan Hinshaw
On Oct 7, 2019, at 18:12, ann sanfedele wrote: > > Hey guys, > I have 72 kb doc file that is in MS Word ( 97/2000/xp) I'd like to convert to > PDF and I don't have the software/app to do that. Is there someone who could > do it if I sent you the file as an attachment in email? I can read the f

Re: help with making a PDF file from a doc file

2019-10-08 Thread ann sanfedele
LOL!  NOW you tell me :-)   thanks for that info. useful in future...  I wanted Paul to read what I'd written anyway  and I've got my PDF already best, ann On 10/8/2019 12:39 PM, Jan van Wijk wrote: Hi Ann, On Mon, 7 Oct 2019 21:36:06 -0400 ann sanfedele wrote: I don't have WORD.. that's t

Re: help with making a PDF file from a doc file

2019-10-08 Thread ann sanfedele
I eschew glib saur-chasm :-)  Brian actually pointed to a way for me to do it in open office which is fine for future references. someone else mentioned Libre office.. . thanks  might try it at some point ann On 10/8/2019 12:44 PM, Nolan Hinshaw wrote: On Oct 7, 2019, at 18:12, ann sanfedele

Re: help with making a PDF file from a doc file

2019-10-08 Thread P. J. Alling
Ann, I've got Openoffice 4.1.6 installed on my machine and under the file menu there's an option to export as PDF. On 10/7/2019 9:36 PM, ann sanfedele wrote: Thanks , II'll send it -- I don't have WORD.. that's the problem and Open office doesnt give me the option of saving as a PDF. Feel free

Re: help with making a PDF file from a doc file

2019-10-08 Thread Sandy Harris
On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 9:36 PM ann sanfedele wrote: > Thanks , II'll send it -- I don't have WORD.. that's the problem and > Open office doesnt give me the option of saving as a PDF. My version of O-O (Kubuntu Linux) does & earlier versions going back at least three years did as well. I do not r

Re: help with making a PDF file from a doc file

2019-10-08 Thread John
That's strange because I save files as PDF all the time from Open Office. On 10/7/2019 21:36:06, ann sanfedele wrote: Thanks , II'll send it -- I don't have WORD.. that's the problem and Open office doesnt give me the option of saving as a PDF. Feel free to read it.. ann On 10/7/2019 9:17 PM,

Re: help with making a PDF file from a doc file

2019-10-08 Thread John
I don't remember which, but either Libre Office is descended from Open Office, or Open Office is descended from Libre Office. On 10/8/2019 14:09:45, ann sanfedele wrote: I eschew glib saur-chasm :-)  Brian actually pointed to a way for me to do it in open office which is fine for future referen

Re: help with making a PDF file from a doc file

2019-10-08 Thread Henk Terhell
Libre Office was a fork of Open Office and is in my opinion more actively updated and is a very solid package. If you only use word processing, Open Office writer is easier because with Libre Office you have to download the whole lot of Office programs. However only Libre Office can read/write th

Re: October PUG is up

2019-10-08 Thread Rick Womer
These are all beautiful, and unusual for the list. Thanks to the contributors, and to Brian and our host, Igor. Rick On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 5:16 AM Brian W wrote: > > G'day all > > View the October gallery here: > > http://pug.komkon.org/ > > (you may need to refresh your browser if you see the

Re: help with making a PDF file from a doc file

2019-10-08 Thread Nolan Hinshaw
On Oct 8, 2019, at 12:55, John wrote: > > I don't remember which, but either Libre Office is descended from Open > Office, or Open Office is descended from Libre Office. Per the Libre office web site, a crew forked Libre Office from Open Office in 2010 and released a version in 2011. — ^<@<.@