Exporting to PDF in OpenOffice

May 7th, 2009 by Shawn Powers in

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Share documents that maintain formatting by exporting to PDF

Download in .ogv format
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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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ibrahim almalki's picture

u can support format mp4 for iphone

On May 9th, 2009 ibrahim almalki (not verified) says:

hi all,

u can support format mp4 for iphone

thanks

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Sure

On May 11th, 2009 Shawn Powers says:

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

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flip's picture

.pdf files are proprietary?

On May 7th, 2009 flip (not verified) says:

.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]"

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Cool!

On May 8th, 2009 Shawn Powers says:

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

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easier in *buntu

On May 7th, 2009 Roland (not verified) says:

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.

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