Re: [users] I am using version 2.1 of OpenOffice.org. My problem is format accuracy with MS Word

2006-12-20 Thread Pradeep Srinivas
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 15:58, Richard Detwiler wrote (regarding Re: [users] I am using version 2.1 of OpenOffice.org. My problem is format accuracy with MS Word): > Glenn Seidman wrote: > > DougT, > > > > I am starting from Microsoft Word, not Writer. > > >

Re: [users] I am using version 2.1 of OpenOffice.org. My problem is format accuracy with MS Word

2006-12-20 Thread Richard Detwiler
Glenn Seidman wrote: DougT, I am starting from Microsoft Word, not Writer. The problem is that we are performing complex processing on the original Microsoft Word document (created in Microsoft Word) using the OpenOffice API and once we do the processing using this API, the formatting and pagin

RE: [users] I am using version 2.1 of OpenOffice.org. My problem is format accuracy with MS Word

2006-12-20 Thread Glenn Seidman
hange. Thank you for your assistance, Glenn -Original Message- From: DougT [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 9:38 AM To: users@openoffice.org Cc: Glenn Seidman Subject: Re: [users] I am using version 2.1 of OpenOffice.org. My problem is format accuracy with MS

Re: [users] I am using version 2.1 of OpenOffice.org. My problem is format accuracy with MS Word

2006-12-19 Thread DougT
Copy to unsubscribed OP: It's probably a nit, but you say "word" documents. Do you mean Writer or are you starting from M$Word and trying to cheat their lack of direct export to PDF ability? Either way, it would be helpful to see an example of the problem(s) you are experiencing. Perhaps I

Re: [users] I am using version 2.1 of OpenOffice.org. My problem is format accuracy with MS Word

2006-12-19 Thread Andis
There are lot of utilities to export documents to pdf from any application. Check sourceforge.net. If you have ms word and complex documents to export, it's better to do it directly from ms word, not to user ooo writer. Otherwise, if you are using ooo, why to create doc files insted of using na

[users] I am using version 2.1 of OpenOffice.org. My problem is format accuracy with MS Word

2006-12-19 Thread Glenn Seidman
We are having a problem where we use the Open Office engine to render word documents into PDFs. We cannot get the PDF output to be precisely the same. The biggest issue is that pagination is different. Does anyone know what we can do to make the accuracy near-perfect or perhaps a set of fonts/