[AT] Off topic Open Office PDF UPDATE Larry Goss

[Dean Van Peursem]

Steve,

The PDF files that Open Office creates are fully compatible with Adobe Reader.

Dean Van Peursem
Snohomish, WA

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-----Original Message-----
From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Offiler
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 11:11 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Off topic Open Office PDF UPDATE Larry Goss

Charlie, the free downloadable version of Adobe Acrobat that
practically the whole world has already downloaded and installed is
just a reader.  It cannot create files, or at least in my experience
this has always been true.  There is Adobe software for purchase that
creates PDF's.  It seems to me that Open Office has encorporated some
sort of non-Adobe PDF-compatible file creation of its own.

Steve O.

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 1:09 PM, charlie hill
<charliehill at embarqmail.com> wrote:
> Yep that is the way I see it.  It's also possible that the PDF icon would
> not even show up if I didn't have Acrobat on my computer.
>
> Charlie
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Larry Goss" <rlgoss at insightbb.com>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 12:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Off topic Open Office PDF UPDATE Larry Goss
>
>
>> Thanks, Charlie.  It could be doing it either way, but the fact that the
>> process is available one way or another is helpful.  I guess the only way
>> we would know is if someone who has a barebones version of Open Office
>> loaded on a computer with no Adobe Acrobat files would try it.  My guess
>> is that no one has such a pristine computer available.
>>
>> Larry
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
>> Date: Friday, October 24, 2008 9:34
>> Subject: Re: [AT] Off topic Open Office PDF UPDATE  Larry Goss
>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>>
>>> 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>
>>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
>>> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>>> 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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