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Exporting to PDF in OpenOffice

May 07, 2009  By Shawn Powers
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FAIL (the browser should render some flash content, not this).

Share documents that maintain formatting by exporting to PDF

Download in .ogv format

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other OS users need to know this

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Submitted by uniquegeek on Thu, 05/14/2009 - 21:40.

I use pdfs a lot at work and deal with other's files. I really wish people knew they can't use whatever font they please and expect it to work the same on another computer (not really their fault, I know). It's unfortunate most people don't know how to make their own pdfs at home, or there are barriers to making them (a layman trying to figure out/find "print as" pdf versus "save as"... or financial barriers).

The Adobe suite of programs is pretty consistent in making pdfs that work well, but other (well-used) programs can often be a nightmare. As a result, I usually end up telling people about OpenOffice and Gimp :)

The only thing that bugs me on my (Linux) system is that I'm a power user, so I miss some of the fancier PDF manipulation... even just extract and combine. From what I understand, you can manipulate PDFs with ImageMagick, but I haven't gotten around to it yet!

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u can support format mp4 for iphone

ibrahim almalki's picture
Submitted by ibrahim almalki (not verified) on Sat, 05/09/2009 - 11:51.

hi all,

u can support format mp4 for iphone

thanks

Sure

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Submitted by Shawn Powers on Mon, 05/11/2009 - 11:17.

Just search for Linux Journal in the iTunes store. You can subscribe from there.

Shawn Powers is an Associate Editor for Linux Journal. You might find him chatting on the IRC channel, or Twitter

.pdf files are proprietary?

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Submitted by flip (not verified) on Thu, 05/07/2009 - 12:34.

.pdf files are proprietary? not anymore, according to wikipedia:

"Formerly a proprietary format, PDF was officially released as an open standard on July 1, 2008, and published by the International Organization for Standardization as ISO 32000-1:2008.[2]"

Cool!

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Submitted by Shawn Powers on Fri, 05/08/2009 - 23:08.

Hey, I didn't know that. Thanks for the link!

Shawn Powers is an Associate Editor for Linux Journal. You might find him chatting on the IRC channel, or Twitter

easier in *buntu

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Submitted by Roland (not verified) on Thu, 05/07/2009 - 11:57.

In the Ubuntu family it's even easier: just print to the included PDF pseudo-printer. It even gives you a way to filter out unwanted pages.
Look in $HOME/PDF for the output.