Exporting to PDF in OpenOffice
May 7th, 2009 by Shawn Powers in
Share documents that maintain formatting by exporting to PDF
Download in .ogv format
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other OS users need to know this
On May 14th, 2009 uniquegeek says:
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
On May 9th, 2009 ibrahim almalki (not verified) says:
hi all,
u can support format mp4 for iphone
thanks
Sure
On May 11th, 2009 Shawn Powers says:
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?
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]"
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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