[AT] Off topic Open Office PDF UPDATE Larry Goss

[charlie hill]

Larry I just did my first Open Office document.  When I started to print it 
I noticed a tab on the tool bar that says "PDF".  When I hover the cursor 
over the button it says "export directly as PDF".

The thing I don't know is if it is making it's own PDF file or using my 
other PDF software to do it.

Hope this helps a little.

charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Goss" <rlgoss at insightbb.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 11:14 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Off topic Open Office and computer associations. OT


> For those of you who are using Open Office, I have a question -- does the 
> program have a direct method for generating PDF files?  PDF file 
> generation is now a feature of Word and WordPerfect.  Is it available 
> directly in Open Office?
>
> BTW, the feature is not bundled with Word as it comes from the company. 
> You have to ask for it on-line or have it sent to you by mail, but it is 
> free.
>
> With the late versions of Adobe Acrobat, bi-directional file translation 
> through PDF is possible.  The instructions say that you can only go back 
> from PDF to the word processor that was originally used for the material, 
> but I have found that is not a hard and fast restriction.
>
> Larry
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Bruce <davidbruce at yadtel.net>
> Date: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 7:14
> Subject: Re: [AT] Off topic Open Office and computer associations.
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>
>> Charlie,
>> When I last used the Works Wordprocessor (several years ago) the
>> file
>> format was just a bit different from the Word *.Doc
>> format.  Typical
>> Microsoft stuff.
>> David
>> NW NC
>>
>>
>> charlie hill wrote:
>> > Thanks David,  So far the only problem I've had is
>> that   I can't get it to
>> > open documents written in MS Works Wordprocessor.  It's
>> basically just a
>> > scaled down version of Word and Word will open the
>> files.  For some reason
>> > OpenOffice doesn't recognize them.
>> >
>> > charlie
>>
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