Good Day Mathias,
Thank you for your input. While I was already aware of a good portion
of that & have learned more, My friend, was not since I failed to show
her how to do the "export" I am quite sure my choice of words ended up
incorrect for you Much More Experienced OO users, so I won't bother
you again. Again, thanks.
In Service & In Health,
Rev. Richard M. Cadwell, D.C, D.C.M., Dip. NBCE, EMT-A, EMICT, DDh.
HP to the Sanctuary of the Healers' Heart
Mathias Bauer wrote:
SunCat wrote:
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.
There is no such thing as "saving as PDF" in OOo. OOo can't open PDF
files again, so by intent we only have a PDF *export*. That means, if
you call "Save As", PDF is not offered in the list of file formats, you
have to call "Export". This shall make clear that you won't be able to
re-edit that file and that you still have to save the document to
another format if you want to be able to do that.
Unfortunately while OO will save as a PDF it
appears to be as proprietary as M$ since M$will not see nor load it.
Microsoft Office also is not able to load PDF files, regardless if they
have been created with OOo, Adobe Acrobat (the full version) or any
other application.
Adobe will not recognize or load an OO pdf file.
That is definitely wrong. Are you sure that the file is a PDF file? It
sounds that it is an odt file with a pdf extension.
Only OO will read it
and sometimes not then.
No! If OOo can open what you think is a PDF file it isn't one.
So now she must put out for Word 2007 and she
has the latest Adobe Reader. No one but the rich or businness folk can
afford to have the full editing capable version. From what I am
hearing both Adobe and M$ 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.
The Adobe Reader can only read PDF files, without being able to edit it.
If you want to save a file in OOo into a format that OOo can read and
edit again, use the Open Document Format (ODF), in Writer this is an
"odt" file. What MS Office is able to read is not under our influence.
They claim to be able to read ODF documents, but their support is lousy
compared to the importing capabilities of OOo for the MS Office formats.
Regards,
Mathias
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