Greetings, all. I have recently discovered the ability of certain Linux word processing apps to create pdf files. What I'm referring to here is the print to file feature, i.e. printing an OpenOffice or M$Word file to pdf. This is really useful for my work, and could save me plenty over the competing Adobe product:) . The ones I've used so far are KWord (what a flaky program!) and OpenOffice. When KWord can be operated with some degree of sanity, it seems to produce the most compatible pdf files. I'm reluctant to use it though: certain activities such as fiddling with the font type drop down menu have the disastrous effect of killing XWindows. Yes, merely glancing through that menu can cause X to simply obliterate, finally bringing me back to the login prompt (gpm, I think) when things return to normalcy. My comment on the flakiness of that app aside, what I'd really like to ask concerns the pdf's I've created with OpenOffice (1.0). They look and display fine under GV. But Adobe Acrobat Reader will not display them, claiming they are corrupt. Does anyone have any idea why this is so and/or any pointers on how to make Adobe be as happy with them as GV is?
I suppose I should also ask if others may have had such experience with KWord as I have? I don't know whether this is the bugginess of the program, or perhaps that the creator of the distro I use has "specially tweaked" their Debian so that it will run KDE3.01. Thanks, James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
