Dear Dr. Cadwell: I see your friend may have some of the many issues that many others who I support have encountered to widely varying degrees, not only with Open office, but with import/export issues in many other applications and platforms (operating systems).
Many of these problems are more circumstantial than proprietary issues, and they do have many workarounds that often relate to the deeper issues of how one uses the software one already has. This has prompted me to draft a help file for this based on my experiences with such issues since the days of DOS. This will take a bit of time to write, but I will eventually either send it to you or, if in the end, the size is too big for normal email. I will first send you an existing help file with instructions how to receive it by splitting the file using the 7-zip open source application. BTW: What time zone are you in? I am near Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and am on Eastern Standard Time (same as NYC). Best Regards, Bruce Martin brucemarti...@gmail.com -----Original Message----- From: SunCat [mailto:sanctuar...@localnet.com] Sent: November 12, 2009 2:42 PM To: discuss@openoffice.org Subject: [discuss] PDF Issues Open Office discussion list: I recently had the occasion to talk to a friend whom I had introduced to Open office and she had the problem of having saved a file ( for School ) as a PDF. Unfortunately while OO will save as a PDF it appears to be as proprietary as M$ since M$will not see nor load it. Adobe will not recognize or load an OO pdf file. Only OO will read it and sometimes not then. So now she must put out for Word 2007 and she has the latest Adobe Reader. No one but the rich or businness folk can afford to have the full editing capable version. From what I am hearing both Adobe and M$ have found proprietary means of blocking OO's implementation of the PDF format. Unfortunately she will have to redo the paper and she blames me for turning her on to OO since this one will cost her a grade. When are we going to get a PDF format for OO and both adobe or M$ can read and convert both ways? Or is it always going to be M$ as the default standard as they continue to rip off open source coding? Thank you. Rev. Dr. Cadwell --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-h...@openoffice.org No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.707 / Virus Database: 270.14.63/2500 - Release Date: 11/13/09 02:54:00 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-h...@openoffice.org
