[olug] OpenOffice to PDF?

[Phil Brutsche]

Mac Petras wrote:
> Well, I'm not on my Linux box at the moment, so I can't verify this, but I
> found the following at this link:
> http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS4317712829.html
> I know there is at least 1 free PDF printerdriver for Windows. Linux...I'm
> not so sure.

Yea, it's called ghostscript ;)

> Create a .PDF with OpenOffice (For Linux, Windows, Mac)
> 
> The .pdf document format was created by Adobe, and OpenOffice.org makes
> creating .pdf documents easy. OpenOffice 1.0 is included in the latest
> versions of Mandrake, Red Hat and SuSE Linux, and is available as a free
> download for Linux, Windows, and Mac OSX (beta) at OpenOffice.org.
> OpenOffice is the open source sibling to StarOffice 6.0 created by Sun
> Microsystems.

If you're using OpenOffice 1.1/StarOffice 6.1 (afaik both are currently 
beta) you can create .PDFs directly from the "File" menu.

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Phil Brutsche
phil at brutsche.us