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From: "Peter W. Schmiedeskamp" <peter@spirit.lib.umt.edu>
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To: Chris Aitken <chris@ideal.net.au>, Questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: PDF creation in Star Office
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 07:40:55 -0600
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On Wednesday 19 September 2001 06:54 pm, 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.
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
>
> Chris

Everything that can output postscript can be converted to PDF.  Print to a 
file in StarOffice and then run ps2pdf on it.

Alternatively, you could use LyX to write reports and such.  LyX is in my 
mind a much better and more modern approach to document creation than 
wordprocessors are.  Current versions of LyX will automatically generate a 
PDF from any document created therein.

Hope this helps.

-Peter
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