James Knott wrote: > Harold Fuchs wrote: > > Stuart McGraw wrote: > > > > <snip> > >> Dia, for example, (which I use for some of my documentation) has command > >> line options to do an export, so in my makefile I can have Dia update > >> its > >> .png file is it's needed. But for Writer, although I see command > >> line options to > >> print a document, there doesn't seem to be any command line options > >> to export > >> a document. > >> > >> I was hoping there were such options, or would soon be such options, or > >> there was some other way to do this. It would be unfortunate if OO > >> documents > >> can't be integrated into a project build system. I don't want to go > >> back to text READMEs! > >> > >> > > <snip> > > > > Not too sure of my ground here: > > > > If you can print an OpenOffice document from the command line, install > > a PDF "pseudo printer" and print it to that. I use PDFCreator, free > > from http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ but I've also come > > across PDF995, also free, at http://www.pdf995.com/ The latter has a > > smaller footprint but has "nagware" advertisements. > > > In Linux, printing to PDF, from any app, is standard, at least with the > KDE desktop.
I am using Gnome, and have never bothered to set up printers on my linux box (I do all my printing from Windows currently), but I'll keep this in mind. I think the VB macro method posted earlier will work for me, but if not, I will try this route. Thanks. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
