Re: [ilugd] Openoffice 1.1 RCs and other publishing questions

2003-09-30 Thread Anand Shankar
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Re: [ilugd] Openoffice 1.1 RCs and other publishing questions

2003-09-29 Thread Shuvam Misra
. PDF are usually considered low resolution of what you will be getting. They are only good for previewing. Not necessarily. I think a lot depends on the fonts. PDF files were created (IIRC) to assist creating online formatted documents

Re: [ilugd] Openoffice 1.1 RCs and other publishing questions

2003-09-29 Thread LinuxLingam
I worked in an advertising company for sometime in Goa. Usually when we gave out the files for printing, the printers were satisfied by the Postscript files. However some of the printers wanted a Corel Draw file, though I suspect in the end they turned them to PS files. PDF are usually

Re: [ilugd] Openoffice 1.1 RCs and other publishing questions

2003-09-29 Thread Shuvam Misra
i tend to disagree on some issues here. PDF has commoditized postscript, and bridged the 'digital divide' between the advanced users and beginners. as a macintosh user since 1984 i can tell you ... Very interesting. Many things here I didn't know. Thanks. :) I don't have first-hand experience

[ilugd] Openoffice 1.1 RCs and other publishing questions

2003-09-28 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
I have been trying out openoffice RCs for the last few weeks. Especially the WRiter. Currently I am using 1.1RC4(on both Windoze and Linux), and downloading 1.1RC5(for windoze). One really amazing feature of Openoffice is integrated export to PDF in three forms - optimize for screen, print and

Re: [ilugd] Openoffice 1.1 RCs and other publishing questions

2003-09-28 Thread LinuxLingam
On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 11:53, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: One really amazing feature of Openoffice is integrated export to PDF in three forms - optimize for screen, print and type-quality. No more installing of software like pdfcreator etc. to create PDF files (sometime of not that great

Re: [ilugd] Openoffice 1.1 RCs and other publishing questions

2003-09-28 Thread Raj Shekhar
On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 11:53, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: One question that I wanted to ask guys into publishing in this list. How far does a PDF go into helping typesetting people? I worked in an advertising company for sometime in Goa. Usually when we gave out the files for printing, the