On Wednesday 08 November 2006 08:38, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Wed, 08 Nov 2006 02:38:37 +1100 > > Ross Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo: > > John Jason Jordan wrote: > > >I have Ghostscript installed on my Linux computer. I don't have > > >spadmin, and can't find it to install it. > > > > spadmin is part of the Linux OOo package and the standard OOo rpms put > > it in /opt/openoffice.org2.0/program/spadmin. > > > > If you can't find it, try running: > > > > locate spadmin > > Well, that didn't work. I did "locate spadmin" and it found it: > > /home/jjj/.openoffice/1.1.3/spadmin > /home/jjj/.foxrc/.openoffice/1.1.3/spadmin > /usr/lib/openoffice/program/spadmin > /usr/lib/openoffice/program/spadmin.bin > > So I navigated to /usr/lib/openoffice/program and the ls command says > it is there. So is spadmin.bin. But here's what happened: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/lib/openoffice/program$ spadmin > bash: spadmin: command not found
So the current directory is not in $PATH. You can start it with ./spadmin and IIRC, spadmin has to be run as root. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/lib/openoffice/program$ spadmin.bin > bash: spadmin.bin: command not found > > Dunno what's wrong. :( > > > > But I printed the form from > > >Writer to test_form.ps (using a PostScript Level 2 printer that I own > > >and have installed). Then I edited the above line to: > > > > > >/usr/bin/gs -q -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite > > >-sInputFile="/home/jjj/Phonetics/test_form.ps" > > >-sOutputFile="/home/jjj/Phonetics/test_form3.pdf" > > > > > >And tried it. It created test_form3.pdf in the Phonetics folder all > > >right, but it was a zero-byte file. Not sure where to go from here. > > > > In this case, could you try: > > > > /usr/bin/gs -q -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite \ > > -sOutputFile="/home/jjj/Phonetics/test_form3.pdf" \ > > /home/jjj/Phonetics/test_form.ps quit.ps > > > > I.e. put the list of input files at the end (quit.ps is a file that gs > > knows where to find and just provides the "quit" command to tell gs to > > exit - otherwise gs will stay in interactive mode). > > OK, that created an output file. But when I opened it in Adobe Reader > 7.0 none of the controls were there. Yet when I print the file to the > same laser printer (for print output, not to file) the print output > shows the controls. Therefore, the .ps file must contain the controls. > So Ghostview is not only not creating an editable PDF file, it isn't even > embedding the controls contained in the .ps file. > > I have created a website with the relevant files in this discussion: > > http://web.pdx.edu/~johj > > I would appreciate it (and so would the bug-fixers and developers) if > you and anyone else who is interested in the PDF export problem would > look at those files and at least verify that the problem is not that I > am just doing something dumb. > > Also, I can't upgrade my 2.03 to 2.04 because 2.04 is not yet in the > repositories. Meantime, it would be useful to find out if perhaps this > problem has been resolved in 2.04. If someone with 2.04 would download > the files and verify that it does or does not work, I'd appreciate it. > > Thanks for everyone's help so far. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Andy Pepperdine On this mailing list help is provided by volunteers. Please subscribe to the mailing list to see all the replies to a query, and reply only to the mailing list. For FAQ, userguide, see: http://documentation.openoffice.org/ For more information about the OOo licence here: http://www.openoffice.org/license.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
