[AT] Off topic Open Office PDF UPDATE Larry Goss

[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" 
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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 
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> >
> >> 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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