On Thursday 10 January 2002 16:05, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote: > 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.
Thanks for the suggestion. I was wondering if LaTeX might be able to help. As it happens I tried out the AFPL version of Ghostscript7.03, and that produced pdf files which Acrobat displayed perfectly. gv still had minor problems displaying the files. A document written in Landscape format would be 'chopped off' regardless of whether I displayed it in portrait or landscape. However installing the GSView4.1 pdf viewer worked perfectly, although the UI is not as nice as gv. Thanks again derek
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