[AT] Off topic Open Office PDF UPDATE Larry Goss

charlie hill charliehill at embarqmail.com
Fri Oct 24 10:09:12 PDT 2008


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
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From: "Larry Goss" <rlgoss at insightbb.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
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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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