You could install BullZip PDF printer. With this installed you print your Word 2003 document Word 2003 and with BullZip PDF Printer selected as the printer, you get a window displayed saying where you want to save the PDF file. You click OK on this and the PDF is saved on the Desktop and Adobe PDF reader opens with the PDF being displayed. No need to open in another program to get a PDF out. I have been converting documents from Lotus Ami Pro and Windows Write for quite some time and have found BullZip PDF printer to be very good. You can download it form BullZip.com here:-
http://www.bullzip.com/products/pdf/info.php Note that there are other free PDF printers available, but I like this one Cimetry is another one that I have used. Declan Moriarty ________________________________ From: Jay Lozier <jsloz...@gmail.com> To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wednesday, 28 November 2012, 7:41 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem reading Word 2003 document On 11/28/2012 01:14 AM, Chris Carlson wrote: > I'm new to this e-mail list, so excuse me if this is something discussed > already. > > I've been very pleased with LibreOffice on many fronts. I recommend it to > everyone. As a matter of fact, I use it instead of Word at every > opportunity. At work, though, I use Word because that's what's installed. > > I write a newsletter for the American Legion. Since it was developed in > Word, I use my old student copy of Word 2003 to create it each month. I have > to provide both a .doc and .pdf of the newsletter to the printers. My trick, > since Word 2003 doesn't offer a .pdf output, is to read the .doc with > LibreOffice (3.5) and publish it to .pdf. > > For the first time in months, LibreOffice can't seem to recognize the .doc > format. I'm using the same version of Word that I've used for months. The > newsletter is basically the same file, which I copy and modify for the new > month. For whatever reason, LibreOffice tries to open it as a text file. It > initially asks what text encoding it should use, waits for a long time, and > then opens a garbage document. > > Is this a known problem? Did I do something to the document that caused it > to be read incorrectly? > > Thanks for any ideas on this. > > Chris > > Which subversion of 3.5 are you using? doc formats are generally well behaved for importing into LO. Occasionally there is file that does not load correctly. You might try saving the file as rtf and try opening that in LO. Once you get the newsletter to open is to save it using ODF formats instead of doc format. One trick you can try is to rename the Libreoffice users folder - I am not sure on Windows where it is. Restart LO and the folder will be recreated. If there is a garbled setting this sometimes fixes the problem. If you can post a typical file to Nabble someone may be able to see if they can replicate the problem. -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
