On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 16:48 +0100, Jim Price wrote: > On 20/05/11 15:15, Liam Proven wrote: > > On 20 May 2011 00:01, Daniel Case<[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi guys, > >> > >> I'm a web designer and host, and I often get clients email with .doc, > >> .ppx and even .docx nowadays.... the question is, what should I be > >> doing about these people? I often send an email back asking them if > >> they would mind sending in an open format so I can open it without > >> problems, but I have had one person cancel a job over it (extreme, I > >> know, apparently I was wasting time..) so the question is how can I > >> educate these people, especially if they are willing to cancel a > >> project over it? (I make my income from this stuff!) > > > > More or less what Popey said, actually, but I would like to make a > > more detailed suggestion. > > > > You don't need to actually spend any money to achieve this, or most of this. > > > > What you do is: > > <snips good, pragmatic ideas> > > > That's it. Using all freeware, you can now view the files in native > > Microsoft applications, without a Windows licence or binaries or > > anything. > > > > OK, true, it is not all FOSS - not FOSS at all, in fact - but it's > > legal, legit and works. I prefer to think of it as a small gesture of > > defiance, myself. > > I would suggest one further idea to that- add the Ghostscript PDF > printer driver so you can print any documents to a PDF file from the MS > viewers and use those PDFs with native apps in Ubuntu. Gimp, > Openoffice/LibreOffice (Writer and Draw with the PDF import extension) > and assorted command line utils can do things with PDFs which Windows > users would be envious of if they didn't think they were impossible. > > -- > JimP > >
With the latest version of CUPS you do not need a separate PDF printer. You just select 'Print to File' and you get three output options, one of which is PDF (the others are Postscript and SVG) Tony -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
