On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 14:22:44 +1000 Jean Hollis Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Gary Schnabl wrote: > > Print to what printer file? The typical printer option would be > > Adobe PDF for the PostScript file. Is that printer file option > > included with Writer if one does not already have Adobe Acrobat > > installed on their systems? I cannot determine that because I > > already have Acrobat 8 Professional installed here. The typical > > file extension would be .ps when using the Adobe PDF printer file > > option. The typical OOo user will not have the relatively expensive > > Acrobat installed. > > Ah! That's a useful clue for me, Gary. Thanks! I definitely don't > have Adobe PDF as a choice in OOo on Ubuntu, though I haven't > searched around to see if someone has a driver for it that I could > add somehow. > > I haven't got around to trying to print to PS from OOo on Windows, > though obviously if at some point I want to use Acrobat to distill > the postscript file, I'll need to use my Windows machine to do it > that step... so I might as well do the print-to-PS step there too, > where I assume from what you've written that I'll find the Adobe PDF > driver as one of the choices. I'll try that and see how it goes. > > --Jean On linux you need to have ghostscript installed to get the same (or similar) functionality of postscript printer drivers. I thought this was installed automatically in ubunutu. Can you see if it is installed on your system? Shelagh -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------
