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Re: Making PDF document in KWord



 --- Nathan E Norman <nnorman@incanus.net> wrote: > On
Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 11:06:47AM +0200, Aryan
> Ameri wrote:
> > Hi There:
> > 
> > When I want to make a PDF document with KWord
> (Using print menu), KWord is 
> > able to make a pdf file, but the result is crappy,
> many words are not in 
> > their original position, and all in all, it is
> unreadable. However, making 
> > PostScript files works fine, but anyway, windoze
> users can't view PS files.
> > 
> > Is there any reason why the resulted PDF files are
> like this? Any way I can 
> > repair this?
> > 
> > BTW, I am using KOffice 1.2.1, on KDE 3.1.0 RC 5
> 
> I don't use KWord, but I have some experience
> creating PDF documents
> using TeX.  You can create a PS document with TeX
> and then convert it
> to PDF using 'ps2pdf'; the result is usually poor. 
Perhaps better is to use pdflatex or pdftex (for
plain)

Jan

> Perhaps KWord is
> merely creating a PS document and then converting it
> using 'ps2pdf'?
> 
> BTW, using 'texi2pdf' to create a PDF using TeX
> works really well for
> me thus far.  I don't create really advanced PDFs
> with hyperlinks and
> all the extras, I just create PDFs so windows people
> feel useful.
> 
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> Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking
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