Derek Jennings wrote: > On my 8.1 system I have two PDF printers defined. > The first is the pseudo printer defined by KDE which uses ps2pdf to generate > PDF files. With this printer I have had disappointing results when printing > complex spreadsheets from StarOffice6.0 with the resulting pdf files being > unreadable by either gv or Acrobat4.05, or else them being readable but of > poor quality with columns wandering all over the place. > > The second pdf printer I added by selecting the Adobe Distiller2017.801 > printer driver from the list offered by printerdrake. This printer does not > seem to work at all. If I put a postscript file into it, a postscript file > comes out again, but with a slightly different header. > > Any suggestions? > Would it help for example to use the non GPL but freely available > ghostscript7.x instead of the GPL'd ghostscript6.51 supplied with Mandrake? >
It depends on the content of the spreadsheets, but one possibility would be to transfer the spreadsheet to gnumeric (1.0.0 or better) for example by saving them as excel files and opening them in gnumeric. Then to save the sheet as a LaTeX file and run that file through pdflatex. THe created pdf file can be opened by acrobat or xpdf. (At least I haven't found something that doesn't.) The problem is that exporting as a LaTeX file looses information, but it depends on whetehr you are using that info. -- Prof. Dr. Andreas J. Guelzow http://www.math.concordia.ab.ca/aguelzow
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