Export to Pdf with eps-files and Bookmarks

[Dukram]

Hi, all!

I'm new to this forums as a member - none the less I quite often searched it for several problems I had with OpenOffice in the past. Till now I always found some good answers.

But for this one I'm lost. So - perhaps you can help me there.
I'm writing a bigger scientific report in Openoffice just now - which works fine. My problem is, I want to export it all to pdf afterwards - with bookmarks and all the nice little things, OpenOffice offers. This works just fine, too. Only drawback: I cannot use the normal OpenOffice export option, cause all my images (something around 200 or so) are eps-files, which I dont want to render, but to keep in the pdf as vector graphics.

So - this works fine, too - if I use a postscript printer driver and print the whole thing there - and then convert it all to pdf. Only - my bookmarks are lost in that process.

So - it seems I have to decide to have nice and small vectorgraphics OR bookmarks and ugly, much bigger rendered graphics.
I didn't find any way to have both.

Is there any way to have both? Maybe it is possible to print the bookmarks by a postscript printer driver, too - or something alike.

Please - help me there. After 2 days of research I'm really at a dead end now.

Daniel

[ftack]

The OOo macro extendedpdf will do this. http://www.3bview.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=52&Itemid=77

It is now kind of "commercialized', but the extendedpdf macro is available for free (and even still under the gpl licence as free software). You have to supply your email address, though.

The macro prints to postscript (therefore rendering your eps in full quality) and then processes the postscript using ghostscript to produce a PDF that includes thumbnails and an index. This macro has been around even before OOo featured a PDF export feature itself.
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[Dingo_Dog]

I think he may use also

pdfcreator (if he is windowsian)
printing via CUPS (is linuxian)
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[Dukram]

Hi, thanks for your replies,

as a matter of fact, I know pdfcreator (like it, use it regularily on my windows pc) and printing via CUPS (likewise for my Ubuntu system )
Those two do have the problem of not exporting bookmarks - which is one thing I wanted to have. My thesis is something like 50 chapters long and without bookmarks it's not really fun ....

As for extendedPDF: I tried that one - after some work to install it and get it to work with a small test document it won't work with my thesis because of some strange overflow errors. I did some research there already - the problem seems to be known for documents of a certain complexitivity, but noone seems to fix it.
I'm talking about the version 1.3 here - which is for download on sourceforge.net - not the version 1.4 which you get from 3bview.

That version 1.4 did nothing at all with my OpenOffice 3.0.1 - except produce some 15 BASIC runtime errors ...... (and I'm really not the very best with basic macros).
One example error is in the following line:

modDate = epdf_pdfu_encodePdfDate(field.Date, msgs(), errorCode)

There are some more - for example an overflow in line 660 or something about document title, subjects and such stuff.

Is there anything I have to do for OpenOffice 3? Did any methods change? ExtendedPDF 1.4 seems to be programmed for OpenOffice 2

If extendedPDF worked - it really would be just the thing I needed