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Re: Formats for cross-platform documentation?

Subject: Re: Formats for cross-platform documentation?
From: Mike Stockman <mstockman -at- mac -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 09:02:56 -0400


The easiest way to create PDFs from OpenOffice is by upgrading to OpenOffice 1.1.x, which includes saving as PDF as a built-in feature.

The next solution, if you can't upgrade for some reason, would be to install Ghostscript <http://www.ghostscript.com/>, which will let you create PDFs from any program that can print to a file through a Postscript print driver (which is probably most GUI applications on your platform). The steps will be print to a Postscript file, then run the file through the ps2pdf script included with Ghostscript.

Hope this helps,
Mike

Joel Konkle-Parker wrote:

Well, I'd be creating Word docs (and whatever else it can export) with OpenOffice 1.0.3 (which doesn't include the PDF output, I believe). Are there other ways on an SGI? We're talking free here.



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References:
Formats for cross-platform documentation?: From: Joel Konkle-Parker
Re: Formats for cross-platform documentation?: From: dmbrown
Re: Formats for cross-platform documentation?: From: Joel Konkle-Parker

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