From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 19 18: 7:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from IMGate1.cshore.com (imgate1.cshore.com [63.237.136.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D6B037B425 for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 18:07:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sephiroth (dialup-uu-dynamic10.cshore.com [63.112.158.10]) by IMGate1.cshore.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 81F8924077; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 21:26:12 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 21:10:57 -0400 From: Matthew Graybosch To: Chris Aitken Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PDF creation in Star Office Message-Id: <20010919211057.798fa872.matthew@starbreaker.net> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20010920103418.02b54b18@mail.ideal.net.au> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20010919203029.09ccd918@mail.wexperts.com.br> <5.1.0.14.0.20010919203029.09ccd918@mail.wexperts.com.br> <5.1.0.14.2.20010920103418.02b54b18@mail.ideal.net.au> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.5.3 (GTK+ 1.2.9; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 20 Sep 2001 10:54:23 +1000 Chris Aitken wrote: > Hi All, > > > Just a quick question. Someone mentioned to me today that they > thought Star Office had the ability to create PDF files. I was under the > impression that it can only read them but not write them. Can anyone else shed > some light on this, or even have any other suggestions on how to create > PDF files under a unix enviro that would be great. If StarOffice really can create PDF files, I haven't seen any mention of it in _StarOffice_5.2_For_Dummies_. PDF is little more than Adobe's proprietary hack of the PostScript file format. I've seen mention of a tool called TeX2PDF (tex2pdf) that takes LaTeX input and belts out PDF files instead of the default DVI (which is converted to PostScript using dvi2ps). freshmeat.net has a page on TeX2PDF at [ http://freshmeat.net/projects/tex2pdf/ ] However, I doubt that StarOffice itself can output to PDF. However, I haven't used it in about 9 months, preferring XEmacs. I could be wrong. ****** Matthew Graybosch [matthew@starbreaker.net] http://www.starbreaker.net :: where dreams and reality collide "Screw Sartre. Hell isn't other people. Hell is debugging other people's code." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message