PDF Conversion

kahloesque · General User Joined: 29 Sep 2004 Posts: 6

Anyone else having trouble converting to PDF? I was told when I signed up with CafePress that I should downloads OpenOffice because it made converting to PDF from text so easy, but all I get is different sized dots whenever I try to do it. Can anyone help me? Crying or Very sad

Thanks!

maxqnz · Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 12:33 pm Post subject:

Could you give some more details? What OS are you suing, and what version of Oo? How are you publishing to PDF from within OOo?
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kahloesque · General User Joined: 29 Sep 2004 Posts: 6

maxqnz · Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 12:52 pm Post subject:

Is the document you are trying to print to PDF confidential? If not, I would be happy to have a go and see waht happens. In the meantime, you could try this out:
http://maxqnz.com/comparisonRSM.sxw

I just tried this document, and it converted to PDF AOK. Let me know how it works for you.
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kahloesque · General User Joined: 29 Sep 2004 Posts: 6

This is what comes up when I try to access the link in your last message:

maxqnz · Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 1:47 am Post subject:

David · Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 4:48 am Post subject:

kahloesque · General User Joined: 29 Sep 2004 Posts: 6

maxqnz · Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 2:20 pm Post subject:

Did you try with the file I uploaded? It would be interesting to know if you di, what the results were, since it publishes to PDF OK for me.
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kahloesque · General User Joined: 29 Sep 2004 Posts: 6

maxqnz · Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 2:48 pm Post subject:

Sorry! You have my sympathy. There are many good free and shareware PDF generators, but if you want to try something else before going that way, how about a complete uninstall of 1.1.2 and reinstalling it? Or even just trying a "repair" of the installation?
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José Josephs · General User Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 21

Give the guy a break! OOup to 1.1.3 has really messy pdf export problems. The best work around ( It's not what he's looking for, though) is to use other applications. Which is what I do, but it's REALLY REALLY irritating to have to do this.

The objective is to find a word processer that works on all platforms in the same way. For a while, WordPerfect did the job, but now we can't get WP for Linux. So many of us are now trying to do the WP trick with OpenOffice - except that OO is broken in a lot of places, especially when exporting pdfs. OO pdfs can be viewed on _SOME_ platforms, but not others, which is why you always get these guys saying," ... it works OK on my machine - I don't know what your problem is ..."

The OO pdf bug has been unchanged since the earliest releases right up the the latest release. It says to me that there's nobody home at the OO pdf department, and the lights are out. This is exactly why people go crazy about being squeezed into using open source applications. When it comes to customer support, it's not there. Not only is it not there for just a little while, it's not thereYEAR AFTER YEAR! Only a bunch of helpful geeks saying,"Try another shareware export tool, or try reinstalling, or maybe a different version, blah blah"

The OO pdf problem has to be moved up a level, but with open source, there's no way to so this. It's probably most useful to the OO community to admit that OO is a Mickey Mouse application package that's broken in a lot of places and stop recommending reinstalling, etc. That kind of recommendation just wastes a whole lot of time, and causes excitable people like me to go ballistic.