[AT] Off topic Open Office PDF UPDATE Larry Goss

Fri Oct 24 13:49:04 PDT 2008

Charlie,

Open Office and MS Office create Adobe compatible PDF files on their own w/o use
of any other software package.

Dean Van Peursem
Snohomish, WA

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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of charlie hill
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 1:39 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Off topic Open Office PDF UPDATE Larry Goss

Steve,  I've got a couple of PDF creation software packages.  One is a 
generic that I paid ...  I don't know.... maybe $50 for.  I also have Adobe 
Acrobat Writer built into some of my professional software (part of the 
package) and I have Acrobat reader 9.0.

With all that said I still don't know if Open Office is creating the PDF or 
one of the others.  I guess I could figure it out if it was a big issue. 
It's not.... as long as I can create a PDF file when I need to.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen Offiler" <soffiler at gmail.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 2:11 PM
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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