Re: [SLUG] Real OSes

From: xcalibre (xcalibre@mindspring.com)
Date: Thu Dec 01 2005 - 12:53:08 EST


You can use OPEN OFFICE as well for creating PDF's!!!!

-----Original Message-----
From: Sick Twist <thesicktwist@hotmail.com>
Sent: Dec 1, 2005 9:37 AM
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Real OSes

>From: "Kwan Lowe" <kwan@digitalhermit.com>
>Reply-To: slug@nks.net
>To: slug@nks.net
>Subject: Re: [SLUG] Real OSes
>Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 07:59:51 -0500 (EST)
>
><snip>
>Thank you for pointing that out. I was actually trying to print a webpage,
>not an
>Office document, but I guess that's besides the point. There is an option
>to print
>to a file from the Print dialog. It's not a PDF or PS file though so didn't
>immediately figure out how to view it. Didn't spend a lot of time though
>because I
>ended up creating the PDF on Linux. I did eventually solve the Windows
>problem by
>creating a CUPS PDF printer on another machine. Works well and drops the
>file right
>into a share.
>
>Please let me know how to print PDFs from Firefox and the gvim editor I've
>installed. This would be quite useful for me.

Try PDFCreator - http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

It's a GPL-licensed Windows utility that acts as a PDF printer. I've heard
good things about it but I have not tried it personally. If you do install
it, please let us know how it works.

-Jonathon

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