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List:       openoffice-users
Subject:    Re: [users] Save to PDF's?
From:       Olav Pettershagen <olav.pettershagen () trysil ! online ! no>
Date:       2002-10-07 14:28:52
Message-ID: 200210071628.52379.olav.pettershagen () trysil ! online ! no
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On Monday 07 October 2002 10:33, Kevin McLauchlan wrote:
> I dunno what Daniel is using, but I'm using OOo 1.0.1
> on SuSE Linux 8.0.     When I ask it to make a PDF, it
> churns for a little while and spits out something that
> it calls a PDF. But, if you try to open the file with
> Adobe Acrobat, it fails with a message about:
>
> "The file is not a PDF. It did not begin with %PDF-%"
>
> So, what I've been doing is print-to-file, as a PostScript
> file. I then boot Windows, double-click on the .ps filename,
> and let Acrobat Distiller do its thing. Moments later, I
> have a proper PDF.
>
> I'd kinda like to drop that "boot Windows " part of
> the whole operation.
>
> /kevin

Hmm, I'm using OOO 1.0.1 on SuSE 7.3 and I produce PDF's from OOO documents 
without problems - either via OOO's own printer driver or via kprinter.

There must be something wrong with your postscript setup. Can you print to PDF 
from other Linux apps?

Olav

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