Hi :) Annoyingly PDF is another non-standards based file-format. In much the same way as RTF, DocX it does keep changing at the whim of a single profit-making company - usually this keeps their own product ahead of all competitors products in terms of writing and also in reading that format. With PDF it's Adobe's whims that keep changing the format and constantly making it different from other implementations, including their own.
So people are kinda forced into using Adobe's PDF reader and need to keep updating or upgrading it - or just accept that whichever pdf-reader they currently use may not handle all Pdfs. When people use Adobe's newer PDF-writer the resulting Pdfs may be unreadable (or have large chunks that are unreadable/usable) in anything other than the latest Adobe Pdf-reader Non-Adobe PDF-writers continue to write versions of Pdf that can be read by almost any Pdf-reader. Use of Pdf has risen 'recently' due to an increasing lack of confidence in documents created in MS Word. People are finding that even old documents may not be read perfectly in newer versions of MS Word than they were written with, or even the 'same' version on a different machine. The Pdf format generally removes the ability to edit or modify documents so any documents kept only in that format will need to be completely re-written for even fairly minor edits to bring them up-to-date. Some very minor edits may be possible thanks to programs such as LibreOffice but such programs rarely allow text to re-flow nicely in the way people usually expect of word-processors such as Writer, Word, etc. Regards from Tom :) On 30 November 2016 at 15:32, Paquin, Brian <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Nov 30, 2016, at 9:25 AM, Alexander Thurgood <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Le 29/11/2016 à 15:14, Paquin, Brian a écrit : > > > > Hi Brian, > > > > These pages might help you out : > > > > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www. > oooninja.com_2008_02_batch-2Dcommand-2Dline-2Dfile- > 2Dconversion-2Dwith.html&d=CwIGaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=jc- > EqZyK6fWys6oTdMgtt9CjzHj-k5sGu3EHT7qx4Jg&m=XG14LQXWQ3XXoUF8Buso5oApR1LViT > UCSh9Op9_ywCM&s=0pN4Ab6qaZ-cZ61tDq5py-5QDraLSw02Zzq6tzIfV7k&e= > > > > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__ask. > libreoffice.org_en_question_12084_how-2Dto-2Dconvert- > 2Ddocuments-2Dto-2Dpdf-2Don-2Dosx_&d=CwIGaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=jc- > EqZyK6fWys6oTdMgtt9CjzHj-k5sGu3EHT7qx4Jg&m=XG14LQXWQ3XXoUF8Buso5oApR1LViT > UCSh9Op9_ywCM&s=891gdnMORdZXeWZhrTdK37KBxk8APD1D565jAPUVneo&e= > > > > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__ask. > libreoffice.org_en_question_2641_convert-2Dto-2Dcommand- > 2Dline-2Dparameter_&d=CwIGaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=jc- > EqZyK6fWys6oTdMgtt9CjzHj-k5sGu3EHT7qx4Jg&m=XG14LQXWQ3XXoUF8Buso5oApR1LViT > UCSh9Op9_ywCM&s=---zWRZOThce25xQG0TflLRmcsGqEgT7LFX-Y5T9pt8&e= > > > > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__ask. > libreoffice.org_en_question_1686_how-2Dto-2Dnot-2Dconnect- > 2Dto-2Da-2Drunning-2Dinstance_&d=CwIGaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=jc- > EqZyK6fWys6oTdMgtt9CjzHj-k5sGu3EHT7qx4Jg&m=XG14LQXWQ3XXoUF8Buso5oApR1LViT > UCSh9Op9_ywCM&s=vNk9JJQj0r5A-4TQB1p2fDqkbcj6fAAYwsbyksKR0AY&e= > > > > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__ > stackoverflow.com_questions_22062973_libreoffice-2Dconvert-2Dto-2Dnot- > 2Dworking&d=CwIGaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=jc-EqZyK6fWys6oTdMgtt9CjzHj- > k5sGu3EHT7qx4Jg&m=XG14LQXWQ3XXoUF8Buso5oApR1LViTUCSh9Op9_ywCM&s= > hOHHGSn1lpS1fXT8tD6_iRsGqPHnXBR6kDEh7QFcMRI&e= > > > > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__ > stackoverflow.com_questions_19280101_use-2Dlibreoffice- > 2Dto-2Dconvert-2Dhtml-2Dto-2Dpdf-2Dfrom-2Dmac-2Dcommand- > 2Din-2Dterminal&d=CwIGaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=jc- > EqZyK6fWys6oTdMgtt9CjzHj-k5sGu3EHT7qx4Jg&m=XG14LQXWQ3XXoUF8Buso5oApR1LViT > UCSh9Op9_ywCM&s=3o51oiaP6HHXEZMHZ3Vcz3N6jsmA6H4hPrz0UyAlO_c&e= > > > > > > However, it doesn't seem to be immediately obvious. > > > > Alex > > > > Thank you Alex and Bruce. > The document describing how to use -env was particularly interesting... > > Brian > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to- > unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
