Re: OOo and PDF
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i too use the print to pdf function of openoffice quite often. i've found
that it's important to use font substitutions if you want antialiasing. i
followed the steps below, except i chose default. it had, i believe the same
commmand line.
- --tim
> ====[ On Monday 30 September 2002 05:05 am, Andrew McMillan wrote: ]====
> On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 18:33, Greg C. Madden wrote:
> > On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 04:05, Jerome Warnier wrote:
> > > I've tried several times to print document to files as PDF.
> > > It seems the resulting file is a PostScript file, not a PDF, but with
> > > the .pdf extension.
> > >
> > > Anyone else having the problem or already fixed it?
>
> I print to PDF all the time. I have found best results if I go into
> spadmin and create a new printer.
>
> Select "Connect a PDF Converter".
> Choose the "Adobe Distiller" driver.
> Select the command in the list, i.e.:
> /usr/bin/gs -q -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile="(OUTFILE)" -
> (that's all on one line, but it should all be there and you just need to
> select it).
>
> Obviously you need ghostscript installed for this to work.
>
> The "Adobe Distiller" driver seems to give best results - much cleaner
> text than the "Default" driver.
>
> Since the postscript output from OpenOffice is piped into 'gs' it is
> likely that gs would output this postscript without modification if some
> command-line options were wrong, or possibly if you didn't have the
> appropriate parts for PDF production on your system.
>
> Regards,
> Andrew.
>
> > > I'm using the latest version for Woody (and on Woody).
> > >
> > > Thanks
> >
> > Not exactly what you are asking but just in case. I haven't been able to
> > use the 'print to file > pdf' option (print to file seems to be ps
> > only). I setup a printer with the Printer administration tool that does
> > print a pdf doc to a dir location you can specify.
> >
> > HTH
> > --
> > Greg C. Madden
> > Debian GNU/Linux
> >
> >
> >
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Tim Wheeler <tim@greengibberish.com>
http://www.greengibberish.com/
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