Re: pdf file creation using Linux apps

[Brian Jackson <brian@mdrx.com>]

I don't know if you can get ahold of a newer version of koffice, but I had the 
kind of stability problems with older versions. The newest version seems to 
be about as close to stable as the rest of my system. (I've learned not to 
expect perfection unless I want to help make it that way)

--Brian


On Friday 28 February 2003 06:20 pm, James Miller wrote:
> Greetings, all.
>
> I have recently discovered the ability of certain Linux word processing
> apps to create pdf files. What I'm referring to here is the print to
> file feature, i.e. printing an OpenOffice or M$Word file to pdf. This is
> really useful for my work, and could save me plenty over the competing
> Adobe product:) . The ones I've used so far are KWord (what a flaky
> program!) and OpenOffice. When KWord can be operated with some degree of
> sanity, it seems to produce the most compatible pdf files. I'm reluctant
> to use it though: certain activities such as fiddling with the font type
> drop down menu have the disastrous effect of killing XWindows. Yes, merely
> glancing through that menu can cause X to simply obliterate, finally
> bringing me back to the login prompt (gpm, I think) when things return to
> normalcy. My comment on the flakiness of that app aside, what I'd really
> like to ask concerns the pdf's I've created with OpenOffice (1.0). They
> look and display fine under GV. But Adobe Acrobat Reader will not display
> them, claiming they are corrupt. Does anyone have any idea why this is so
> and/or any pointers on how to make Adobe be as happy with them as GV is?
>
> I suppose I should also ask if others may have had such experience with
> KWord as I have? I don't know whether this is the bugginess of the
> program, or perhaps that the creator of the distro I use has "specially
> tweaked" their Debian so that it will run KDE3.01.
>
> Thanks, James
>
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